Judges and Judiciary
Judge Places Himself in Defendants' Shoes
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Judge Helios "Joe" Hernandez says he developed more empathy toward criminal defendants in his first year on the Ri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Sacramento Superior Court Judge Joe S. Gray, who enjoys the unusual endorsement of every jurist on the...
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Cover letters and thank-you notes are a compulsory yet often confounding part of the...
Government
Court Attempts to Give Closure In Compton's Election Debacle
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has given Eric Perrodin tighter hold on a title that has become very slippery: Mayor of ...
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Jim Hahn on Thursday asked the City Council to support his plan to overhaul the LAPD's discipline system s...
Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - When lawyers get in a hurry, their legal sometimes assistants make typing mistakes. Thi...
LOS ANGELES - Encino lawyer Thomas H. Warden hopes that being a Superior Court judge is something that runs in the family. His...
LOS ANGELES - Spectators in the courtroom gasped in shock Thursday as a defense attorney in the fatal dog-mauling case against...
LOS ANGELES - Imagine 125 incarcerated, streetwise teen-age boys sitting still, mesmerized by a man speaking to them about wha...
LOS ANGELES - A Peruvian man who was denied asylum in the United States after fleeing persecution by Shining Path guerrillas i...
LOS ANGELES - A Newport Coast couple has been sentenced to prison for conspiring to file false tax returns and falsely claim $...
Constitutional Law
Arizona Lawyer Sues California State Bar to Vote
By Don Debenedictisn
LOS ANGELES - An Arizona lawyer who also is admitted to practice in California is suing the State Bar of California for the ri...
POMONA - A baseball scholarship led Judge Daniel S. Lopez toward the law. A talented high-school athlete, he had skill that ea...
Labor/Employment
'Intel' Emphasizes the Proprietary Nature of an Employer's E-mail System
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Niloofar Nejat-Bina - As employers grapple with the consequences of technological advances in the workplace,...
Dicta Column - By Stephen Zager - "Hart's War" is an effective, well-written and equally well-acted "courtroom" drama which ho...
LOS ANGELES - After months of trying to negotiate, a former top executive of Global Crossing has filed a complaint in Los Ange...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Bill Ties New Development to Available Water Supply
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robert McMurry - The classic movie "Chinatown" was based on the true story of how the availability of water ...
Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - Winning negotiators know that getting the best deal often hinges on their ability to pers...
Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - Before heading off to a deposition, make sure you've packed up all the items you'll need. ...
RIVERSIDE - During 20 years in office, District Attorney Grover Trask has taken his share of chances. When a mobile-home fire ...
Labor/Employment
A Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clause Doesn't Limit the Jurisdiction of the EEOC
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first major practical limit...
LOS ANGELES - Judge C. Robert Simpson believes he has served the public well on the bench during the past 13 years. Why then, ...
Forum Column - By Steve Baughman - Given the frenzied calls to string John Walker Lindh up by his thumbs and the almost comple...
LOS ANGELES - The families of two men who died in the plane crash that also killed singer and actress Aaliyah in the Bahamas l...
LOS ANGELES - A man convicted in a plot to murder federal drug agents deserves a new trial because the judge in the case refus...
LOS ANGELES - An elderly neighbor of a woman mauled to death by dogs told jurors Wednesday that the scene in the hallway of he...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Last year, the California Supreme Court decided that consenting adults could expect to hav...
Government
A Revived Condit Banks on a Wave of Publicity to Carry Him to Victory
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - It's a busy time in Condit Country, that region of the Twilight Zone where California Rep. Gary Cond...
VENTURA - In a case that tested the liability of schools for off-campus injuries to students, an appellate court has upheld an...
Focus Column - By Johnny Darnell Griggs - In its landmark opinion in Circuit City Stores Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 105 (2...