Man With Nine Aliases Pleads to DNC Crimes
By Anne La Jeunesse
An Illinois man arrested while marching in an anti-fur protest during the Democratic National Convention pleaded guilty Tuesda...
O.C. Man Sues Over Dad's Rezulin Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In the latest of an avalanche of lawsuits involving the prescription drug Rezulin, an Orange County man is suing t...
Pacheco Seeks Accounts of INS Abuse of Aliens
By Chris Ford
As part of his effort to address alleged civil rights violations and abuses of process by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalizat...
Defense Attorneys Oppose Delay of Rampart Trial
By Anne La Jeunesse
Attorneys representing four Los Angeles police officers accused by former Officer Rafael Perez of participating in corrupt act...
Larson Sworn in as Federal Magistrate Judge
By David Houston
Stephen G. Larson, a veteran assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and highly regarded expert on Russian organized crime, has...
'Cab' Calloway's Widow Regains All Rights
By Dawn Piimanu
Cabell "Cab" Calloway's widow has regained all rights that the famed bandleader signed away before his death in 1994, accordin...
Court Reverses Ruling Under Anti-SLAPP Law
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - A state appellate court has dismissed a suit brought by attorney Edward L. Masry against the developer of a Thousand...
City Seeks Study of Justice System
By Chris Ford
The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday to ask the state attorney general's office to examine how the criminal justice sys...
9th Circuit Tosses Montana Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with campaign financing implications, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitu...
Woman Fired Over Pierced Tongue Sues Her Employer
By Ed Kimble
A Woodland Hills apartment leasing consultant who allegedly was fired because she got her tongue pierced announced a lawsuit a...
Supreme Court To Hear Case of Disabled Golfer
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to consider whether the PGA Tour must allow a golfer with a disability to ride a...
Court Sends Microsoft Case to D.C. Circuit
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - In a tactical victory for Microsoft Corp., the Supreme Court on Tuesday denied the government's direct appeal in ...
Judge's Ruling Protects Water Delivery, Fish
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has declined to remove the Sacramento splittail from the nation's list of threatened and endan...
Child Offender Does Not Have Right to Tattoo
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Juvenile offenders have no free speech right to tattoo and pierce their bodies with gang symbols, a state appe...
Family Feud
By Columnist
Virtually every estate planner recalls the sinking feeling when caught in the middle of warring factions of a client's family.
Jury Finds Officers Reasonable in Raid
By David Houston
A federal jury Monday found that 15 Los Angeles Police Department officers did not act unreasonably during a 1995 drug raid of...
Trafficking Troubles
By Columnist
Transactions that are barred by the act but are nonetheless consistent with U.S. policy may be authorized by a general license...
Program Reaches Out to Vietnamese
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced the start of a Vietnamese Outreach Program today, hoping...
Judge Lee Moves His Chambers Downtown
By Ed Kimble
Judge Charles C. Lee may not get to watch as much of the Sydney Olympics as the rest of the world because he's moving his cham...
Firm Games 2000
By Columnist
While lawyers won't be competing in the Sydney Olympic Games anytime soon, there's always the "Roman-Greco Corner Office Vacan...
Three Litigators Switch Firms
By Katherine Gaidos
The San Diego office of McKenna & Cuneo has broken new ground in construction law with the addition of partners Peter Ippo...
School Voucher Gouger
By Columnist
The American Civil Liberties Union recently filed a landmark case against the state of California for failing to provide publi...
Court Drops Charge in Anti-Fur Protest Case
By Anne La Jeunesse
The failure of videotaped evidence to prove a Costa Mesa man participated in a gate-kicking incident at an anti-fur rally duri...
Book Adds Nothing to Immigration Debate
By Columnist
In his book, John J. Miller explains that multiculturalism threatens the cohesiveness of the United States by discouraging new...
City May Request Task Force on LAPD
By Chris Ford
The Los Angeles City Council today will consider whether to ask that the state attorney general convene a task force to examin...
Ex-Attorney Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Former Orange County attorney Leonard Basinger has pleaded not guilty to charges that he embezzled more than $300,...
Washington Bar Requests Study Of Death Penalty
By Staff Writer
SEATTLE - Gov. Gary Locke has rejected a State Bar recommendation that he study the death penalty in Washington. Reaffirming h...
Rainmaker Will Leave Wilson Sonsini Nov. 1
By Tamara Scott
Yet another high-profile deal maker is leaving one of California's top law practices to join a financial institution. ...
Professor Urges Law Classes on Capital Cases
By Jill Boekenoogen
A San Diego law school professor is asking law schools to rethink their training of lawyers who handle capital cases, citing t...
Dead Celebs Cannot Control the Income of Their Immortality
By Garry Abrams
Princess Diana may have been a candle in the wind. But her estate burns cash. In a case about the power of a dead celebrity to...