Government
Wal-Mart's Critics Promise Court Battle if Ballot Initiative Wins
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - Opponents of Wal-Mart said they will be back in court if voters approve an April 6 ballot initiative allowing th...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Joel Rosenblatt - Joe Grundfest's attempt to set a new standard for inquiries into corporate ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Surgeon Hurt by Police Sees $33 Million Award Dumped
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Friday tossed out a $33 million damage award against the city of Los Angeles and Budget R...
SACRAMENTO - State prison lawyers and those representing inmates argued to stalemate Friday over how to guarantee the autonomy...
SAN BERNARDINO - Security officials at San Bernardino County's Rancho Cucamonga courthouse have begun requiring inmates appear...
Entertainment & Sports
Mother of All Motions Tries To Turn Pooh Into Roadkill
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Lawyers celebrated the 13th anniversary of the Winnie the Pooh lawsuit Friday locked in mortal combat...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has decided a Web site operator did not violate trade secrets by posting software for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The strange bedfellows in the same-sex marriage furor before the state Supreme Court aren't the loving couples...
The federal government is relying on "junk science" to confer protected status on a 6-inch-tall shorebird, according to an att...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten Northern California judgeships are up for grabs in the March primary, including one held by a Marin County...
LOS ANGELES - At 4:30 p.m. on May 28, two days after the 2003 Memorial Day holiday, Los Angeles Superior Court judges halted a...
SANTA CLARA - In a smashing victory for IBM, a Santa Clara County jury Thursday rejected lawsuits filed by two former workers ...
Forum Column - By Russ Baker - First, there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq; then, there weren't. First, we were go...
Entertainment & Sports
Appeals Court Applies Fair Use in Unpredictable Ways
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By David Halberstadter - Within a couple of months of each other, two panels of the 9th U.S...
Criminal
Don't Hold All Muslims Responsible for Men Who Misuse Quran, Beat Women
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Summer M. Hathout - Whenever I tell people that I speak to Muslim audiences about domestic violence, I get t...
Employment Column - By J. Kevin Lilly, Rod M. Fliegel, Ronald D. Arena and Emanuel Shirazi - Law firms frequently are required...
SACRAMENTO - Salinas Valley prison authorities have intercepted a second death threat against state Sen. Gloria Romero, she di...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco jurors grabbed a rarely used provision of a consumer protection law and hit Bank of America with...
Appellate Practice
Attorney Who Used Opponent's Memo Gets Thrown From Case
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney who tried to use his opponent's trial strategy memo against him was disqualified Wednesda...
Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - One of the best public photography exhibits in San Francisco right now is the dis...
Litigation
Riverside Judge Tosses Most of Man's Gender-Bias Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court judge in Riverside has stripped most of the claims from a lawsuit filed by the former spokesperso...
LOS ANGELES - A class action alleging that a fictitious movie critic's favorable opinion of four films constituted false adver...
Appellate Practice
Papers of Prolific Blackmun May Hold Mysteries, Minutiae
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Forget about the Pledge of Allegiance case. Never mind the "enemy combatant" terrorism cases. The focus among Sup...
Judges and Judiciary
Bench Officer Pays For Ballot Statement To Defend Himself
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In November, the president of the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys placed a $5,000 advertise...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Never Expected Challenges By Deputy DAs in Re-Election Bid
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When Judge Dan T. Oki was appointed to the Superior Court bench in 1997, he never imagined being challenged for ...
Judges and Judiciary
Visits to Father in Prison Inspired a Career in Law
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Many an attorney and judge became intrigued with the law by reading classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird," or wa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Casting a cloud over the public sector's heavy reliance on temporary workers, a divided California Supreme Cou...
SANTA ANA - Famed attorney Robert Shapiro will have to answer allegations he received $5 million in ill-gotten cash, part of t...
Judges and Judiciary
Candidates for Seats on Los Angeles Superior Court Present Their Qualifications
By Columnist
Here are statements from candidates for Offices No. 18, 52, 53, 67 and 69 of the Los Angeles Superior Court. ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michael J. Kump - A restrictive covenant often found in agreements between employers and em...