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Overview:  An LA  police officer assumed she had committed the perfect crime, but alas, 23 years after she shot and killed the fiancé of her lover, staging the crime scene to look like a robbery gone wrong, DNA evidence collected at the Van Nuys crime scene was analyzed and led to Officer Stephanie Lazarus, who [...]

Overview:  The ‘Stella Awards’, named for 81 year old Stella Liebeck, who spilled scalding coffee on her lap and successfully sued McDonalds, are cycled and recycled year after year on the internet, and every reader comes away hating lawyers for winning judgments in totally frivolous cases, well guess what, read the Law Review, Stella’s Awards [...]

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Overview: Jim Porter's Law Review discusses parent's liability for their children's acts whether that be broken contracts or tort damages like injuries caused by the child, even willful acts and vehicle liability -- read up and see if you are responsible for Junior's bad behavior. If your 17-year old accidently shoots someone or crashes the [...]

Overview:  This weeks Law Review highlights Jim Porter’s favorite word ‘knucklehead’ which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used to describe a Fresno resident who tested how far his kid’s laser would point by…you guessed it, pointing it at helicopters flying over his apartment, for which he was convicted of a four year prison term [...]

I know I am dating myself, but it was at least 30 years ago, at least, when I stumbled upon these so-called “Construction Definitions.” I have no idea where these came from, but I doctored them up and added a few of my own. While these definitions definitely have a “woe-is-me” whine, they remind us [...]

Overview:  Two of the most successful new companies in the world are about to change their business plans: Uber and Lyft.  The California Labor Commissioner’s office ruled, as did two federal courts in California two months ago, that Uber’s drivers are employees and not independent contractors so entitled to overtime, minimum wages, withholding and reimbursement [...]

Overview:  Jim Porter is a big believer in mediation as a useful, efficient means of alternative dispute resolution, certainly a tool to be tried before arbitration or litigation.  He was certified as a mediator and formed a mediation service before most attorneys even knew what it was.  Read all about it in the Law Review. [...]

Overview:  This weeks Law Review once again encourages readers to sign up to be an organ or tissue donor, thus joining most Americans who have signed on to one of the Registries, like:   www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org or www.organdonor.gov.  Do it, you may save lives. As most of you serious Law Review readers know, every once in awhile [...]