SAN DIEGO - An American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit contends that the Boy Scouts shouldn't be allowed to lease public land b...
TUSCON, Ariz. - When Tucson attorney John Messing admits to being "heavily involved in something called XML," it may sound lik...
Flashbacks and nightmares of a brutal and traumatic childhood began intruding on the present when Donna Friess, a community co...
One confirmed and two suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported among county employees working in a Wilshire...
Stuart Eppsteiner of Solana Beach's Eppsteiner & Associates is tired of insurance companies calling the shots. He says tha...
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Fenwick & West: NEW INTERNET COMPANY TARGETS SMALL BUSINESS
By Staff Writer
BigVine.com Inc. and SmallBusiness.com. have combined operations, creating a new Internet company targeting small businesses. ...
Appellate Practice
Hour to Hour We Rot and Rot, and Thereby Hangs a Tail
By Sherri Salzman
The law, like baseball, is a game of inches and tradition. In the case of Robert Earl Olmsted, it was just 1/32 of an inch an...
The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice recently honored retired Rep. Edward R. Roybal for his fight against discrimination...
WASHINGTON - Congress has urged the Department of Interior to settle the massive class action filed four years ago by hundreds...
In product liability litigation, jurors are not just jurors - they are also consumers with expectations about a manufacturer's...
Daniel Petrocelli, high-profile litigator of O.J. Simpson civil-suit fame, expressed a mixture of sadness and excitement yeste...
The day Joseph Coyne Jr. got into the restaurant business 13 years ago to help a friend from France, the stock market took its...
San Jose's Skjerven Morrill MacPherson has acquired three partners from a San Francisco intellectual property firm that expect...
Lawyers are often confused about the identity of the person who really runs the courtroom. It is not they or the judge. It's ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Sperm Donors Must Be Able To Rely on Confidentiality
By Contributing Writer
The California Supreme Court recently proved the old adage that "hard cases make bad law." In Johnson v. Superior Court, 80 Ca...
The way Joel Kozberg sees it, a federal court ruling on behalf of his clients charging fraudulent misrepresentation against a ...
Witness preparation can have a therapeutic effect because fears are addressed and the judicial process is demystified. ...
One of the longest trials in Santa Monica history and one of the largest fraud cases in American business formed the backdrop ...
Federal judges and other members of the bar paid tribute earlier this week to the late Judge David W. Williams, the first blac...
Cleveland-based Squire Sanders & Dempsey has lost its prestigious Korean practice to Chicago-based Sidley & Austin, as...
It started as a routine domestic violence case. But while out on $15,000 bail, police said, Curtis Edward Smith kidnapped his ...
The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Thursday temporarily halted evidentiary hearings scheduled for Monday that were to probe t...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Panel Orders Judge to Resentence Armenian Immigrant
By David Houston
A U.S. appellate court panel Thursday ruled that a jury considered inadmissible evidence when it recommended life without paro...
Judges and Judiciary
Quidachay Elected Presiding Judge in San Francisco
By Tyler Cunningham
San Francisco judges on Thursday elected Ronald Quidachay to serve as the court's next presiding judge. The judges also electe...
Real Estate/Development
Judge Refuses to Break Bond Between Park Place Partners
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - When two partners started fighting over one of the most recognized landmarks in Orange County, separating them see...
On Monday, California Law Business will release its annual list of the Top 100 attorneys in California. Since The Eye was told...
Personal Injury & Torts
Appeal Court Upholds Big Verdict Over Kmart Guard
By Tyler Cunningham
A state appellate court has upheld a $3.8 million jury award to an East Bay dentist who was trounced by a Kmart non-uniformed ...
Two days after Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. admitted that the number of deaths and serious injuries related to tread separat...
Candidate Bush has a duty to his fellow military comrades-in-arms to fully answer questions about his exceedingly convenient a...
In the recent decisions of United States v. Velarde-Gomez, 2000 U.S.App.Lexis 22941 (9th Cir. Sept. 13, 2000), and United Stat...