Former Deputy D.A. Michael Jesic is the third judge in his family, but the first to serve in the United States.
Appellate lawyers throughout the state are urging the California Supreme Court to crack down on court reporters who overcharge...
Cameras will be allowed in the federal trial courts of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on an experimental basis, the cir...
President Barack Obama will nominate Sharon L. Browne, an attorney with the Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation, to join...
California accused drugmaker Schering-Plough of bilking the state's strapped Medi-Cal program by deliberately inflating the pr...
One of the nation's largest industrial laundry companies has agreed to pay $6.5 million to more than 500 Southern California w...
A divided state Court of Appeal said the Thursday the Legislature's definition of body armor was too complex to be understood ...
For the second time this month, a Federal Circuit panel ruled Thursday that an Eastern District of Texas judge "clearly abused...
A New York man arrested for allegedly uploading a pirated copy of the movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" to a Web site before it...
Image Entertainment, a DVD distributor of independent films, stand-up comedy specials and several Discovery Network television...
Mikhail Reider-Gordon and Michael Spindler of Capstone Advisory Group examines Foreign Corrupt Practice Act violations in over...
Los Angeles County Public Defender Michael P. Judge explains why criminal cases need jury trials and unanimous verdicts. ...
Robert Benson of Loyola Law School examines a 'true believer's mind' in the context of Holocaust and global warming deniers. ...
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After a series of Daily Journal stories exposed concerns, state legislators say the system lacks due process and is possibly h...
Regulators failed to implement more than 200 recommendations to clean up the internal misconduct and systemic problems turned ...
Andrew S. Albert always thought he'd become a mediator when he retired, but a series of personal and professional events led h...
Arturo González, the new president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, says he doesn't have to look further than his own ...
The parties battling in San Francisco federal court over the legality of California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban may...
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Inc., a New Jersey-based manufacturer of sutures and other medical devices, announced...
Smart grid startup Silver Spring Networks closed a $100 million round in venture capital financing Tuesday. ...
AT&T is the target of a class-action lawsuit challenging its practice of charging landline customers for unauthorized and ...
5,000 AT&T workers claiming to be misclassified as exempt employees filed class actions against the company Wednesday dema...
Attorneys at Howrey are mourning the death of a firm associate killed in an apparent murder-suicide Monday in Orange County. ...
The Obama Administration announced Wednesday it will stop detaining asylum seekers while their cases are processed if they are...
The state attorney general's office has filed a lawsuit against an Echo Park car wash alleging the business violated workers' ...
John Schulman, former general counsel for Warner Bros. Entertainment, will join Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp starting Jan....
A federal judge is set to decide the fate of two lawsuits against video game publisher Electronic Arts and the National Colleg...
A dogged lawyer known for winning high-profile sexual harassment cases has gone out of control and should be suspended from th...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Mulls Catholic Group's Rights
By John Roemer
A Catholic anti-defamation group hammered the city of San Francisco for local lawmakers' attacks on the church's stance agains...