Lockyer Sues PG&E's Parent
By Dennis Pfaff
OAKLAND - Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday filed a lawsuit under the state's powerful unfair business practices law c...
Siskiyou Court Employees Sue
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Siskiyou County court employees have filed a lawsuit against the local superior court and two court executives...
DNA Statute Allows Inmate To Go Free After 13 Years
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In the first case of its kind, a wrongfully convicted inmate has been freed under a new state DNA testing statute...
Dirty Taxing
By Columnist
Tax Law Practitioner - Column By Robert W. Wood, In the stiffly starched world of the Internal Revenue Service, it may seem su...
No Surprises In Slimmer State Budget
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis, faced with a $12.5 billion budget shortfall, presented a proposed 2002-2003 budget Thursday that...
Pakistani Student Pleads Guilty
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A second Pakistani student arrested during the Sept. 11 terrorism probe changed his plea in federal court Thursd...
Workbench Pleasures
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan, We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them. - John Selden, Eng...
Grand Jury Indicts JDL Leaders in Bomb Plot
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted two Jewish Defense League leaders on four counts of plotting to blow up ...
Sept. 11 Unleashed Worst of Times, But We Will Recover
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." When Charles Dickens wrote these immortal opening lines in "A Tale of T...
Defections by Partners Take Law Community by Surprise
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Just 11 days into 2002, San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison already has experienced enough bad news t...
Attorneys Offer Services In 2002 Winter Games
By Charles Asbhy
DENVER - As a one-time member of Canada's national basketball team, Salt Lake City attorney Dave Turcotte never expected to be...
Ashcroft Washes Hands of Probe, Citing Conflict
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's quick decision Thursday to remove himself from the criminal probe into the co...
Embattled Judge Faces Charges That He Molested Boy in 1970s
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors filed child molestation charges Wednesday against an Orange County Superior Court judge who is under...
Conceding Objection Scores Points With Jury
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner, Attorneys generally react to opposing counsel's objection in trial in a variety of ways. ...
Dirty Taxing
By Columnist
Tax Law Practitioner Column - By Robert W. Wood, In the stiffly starched world of the Internal Revenue Service, it may seem su...
Attorneys Offer Services In 2002 Winter Games
By Charles Asbhy
DENVER - As a one-time member of Canada's national basketball team, Salt Lake City attorney Dave Turcotte never expected to be...
Workbench Pleasures
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan, We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them. - John Selden, Eng...
Pompous Words Don't Belong in Legal Writing
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger, Were you ever admonished to stop using unnecessarily large or pretentious words in yo...
Ex-Officials of DA's Office File Lawsuit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Dan Lough, former second-in-command at the district attorney's office, and Barry Bruins, the office's former ...
Panel Decides Relevance Isn't Always Relevant
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Resolving a dispute over the wording of a ballot measure in a Huntington Beach city election, an appeals court h...
L.A.'s Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories Peters Out With Feds' Fade
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Word that the federal government apparently has closed a six-year investigation of Death Row Records ...
Young Woman Battles Demons, Awaits Justice
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - On a recent afternoon in a crowded coffee shop in Pasadena, the pretty young woman with long, blond hair quickly...
Court Must Instruct Capital Jury on 'Life Without Parole'
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Ordering the resentencing of a South Carolina death-row inmate, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled, 5-4, that w...
Transit Board Will Seek Decree Clarification
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - In a special session, the Metropolitan Transit Authority board Wednesday voted to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Cou...
Judge Rules Errors Didn't Affect Election Results
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that, while there were errors and irregularities in polling p...
Geronimo Pratt Attorney Sues Over Fees
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The decades-old Geronimo Pratt saga swerved into a fee fight among his lawyers Wednesday as Oakland attorney R...
Setting the Stage for Future of Medicine
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar, With little fanfare or public notice, President George W. Bush recently sounded the death kn...
Circuit Strikes No-Bail Statute for Aliens
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal statute requiring the detention of lawful resident aliens without bail while they fight deportation ...
Another Option
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Jon D. Meer and Eric S. Beane - As a result of recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and the California...
AOC Officer Inducted Into Burger Society
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Sheila Gonzalez, regional administrative director of the Administrative Office of the Courts for Southern Cali...