Ex-Councilman Pleads to Tax Evasion
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard J. Alatorre took nearly $42,000 in cash from people trying to influen...
Council Rejects Ban on Sale of Ammunition
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday turned down a proposal to prohibit the sale of ammunition but indicated ...
Attorneys Request Olson Trial Delay
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for former SLA fugitive Sara Jane Olson indicated Tuesday they want to postpone Olson's April 30 trial...
Open to Debate
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - When the Austin, Texas-based home furnishings site Living.com filed for Chapter 11 protection last year, the c...
DeathCounsel Fined $500 for Failing to File Opening Brief
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court cited and fined one appellate lawyer for contempt and threatened two others Tuesday...
Bill to Strengthen Privacy of Financial Records Squeaks By
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would require financial institutions to obtain the written consent of customers before sharing their ...
Judge Orders Release of Police Files
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to turn over all information they have related to the credibi...
Conflict Reopens Immigration Case
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Helen Gozum Doty was confused by her lawyer's failure to push harder to defeat a deportation order against her...
Search of Court Visitor Violated Rights, Panel Says
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - Finding that sheriff's deputies illegally searched a defendant at a San Bernardino County courthouse, an appella...
Prominent S.F. Conservative Named to Education Post
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush intends to appoint prominent San Francisco attorney Brian W. Jones as the general counsel to th...
Both Sides End Arguments in Rollover Case
By Donna Huffaker
By Donna Huffaker Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - In the first courtroom showdown since the mass recall of tires be...
Prosecutors Didn't Have a Ghost of Chance
By Columnist
In Twilley v. Georgia, 71 S.E. 587 (1911), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in pertin...
Land-Use Abuse
By Columnist
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a property-rights case, Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, that could advance freedom and...
Fun Not Moot for Teens and Lawyers
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - It was easy to forget they were teenagers. They were cool under pressure. They were prepared. They were profes...
O.C. District Attorney Fires Deputy Who Accused Him
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas on Monday fired a veteran prosecutor who accused him of misappropr...
New Court E-Filing Procedure Is Not Just for E-Philes
By Columnist
Although high-tech justice is emerging and the new cybercourtroom is spawning the development of technology-based alternatives...
Judge Orders Retrial Of Death-Row Inmate
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A man twice convicted and sentenced to death for the 1979 murder of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must get...
DA Paints Picture of Deceit, Theft
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Once-prominent personal injury attorney James H. Davis continually "robbed Peter to pay Paul," diverting disable...
French Judge Can't Testify to Bin Laden Links
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A brash French judge who made a name for himself chasing terrorists can't testify in federal court in Los Angele...
Rampart Figure Pleads Guilty Again
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The former partner of rogue Los Angeles police Officer Rafael A. Perez pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges ...
Jury Convicts Attorney in 'Brockovich' Blackmail
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - Century City attorney John J. Reiner, whose ill-fated foray into the movie business led to extortion charges, was co...
MoFo Expands Its Entertainment Practice
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster has extended its Southern California and entertainment reach by open...
Bad Deportation Advice May Void Pleas
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A closely divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a guilty plea by non-citizens may be overturned i...
CIA Strives to Protect Its Data
By Penny Arevalo
By Hildy Medina Special to the Nevada Journal Gilman Louie is on a mission to bring the world's top intelligence agency out o...
First Amendment-Friendly DA Puts Reporters Through Spin Cycle, Twice
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Two episodes on the same day last week raise questions about new Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's of...
Paradise Lost
By Columnist
The Piscitelli case may well herald a new trend in the treatment of unrecovered punitive damages in legal-malpractice a...
U.S. Supreme Court Highlights
By David Pike
Among actions announced Monday, April 2, 2001 by the justices were:
Daily Journal's Collection of Quotes
By Pamela Kraver
"It is entirely unrealistic to regard urine as one of the 'effects' of a person who has abandoned it." Justice Antonin Scalia,...
Both Sides End Arguments in Rollover Case
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - In the first courtroom showdown since the mass recall of tires began, an attorney told a Los Angeles Superior Co...
Brown Raysman: CEO OF L.A. START-UP JOINS LOCAL OFFICE AS PARTNER
By Staff Writer
Former start-up founder Brian Pass is digging back into the practice of law as a partner in the Los Angeles office of the New ...