LOS ANGELES - This is a toy story, but a little less fun than the Disney film. In a verdict in Los Angeles federal court, a ju...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Priests' Privacy Rights Cannot Override Protection of Children
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By John Manly - A recent clergy sexual-abuse case in Santa Barbara illustrates how members of the Roman Catholi...
Litigation
Appeals Panel Tosses Suspension of Police Officer Over Video
By Laura Ernden
Web Exclusive - When San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong discovered that one of her officers made an offensive home video ...
LOS ANGELES - In the 2001 film "Serendipity," the free-spirited Sara, played by Kate Beckinsale, trusts that fate will lead he...
LOS ANGELES - Two days after a jury awarded a black lesbian firefighter $6.2 million in a discrimination case, it issued punit...
A woman whose father was killed in an industrial accident stood to become an instant millionaire after persuading a trial judg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors hoping to persuade jurors to convict a former CEO of 10 felonies related to stock-options ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just as San Bernardino County gets ready to welcome a bevy of new superior court judges, a grand jury has call...
Focus Column - By Roland Nikles - A case in the California Supreme Court has created a sea change in the administration of the...
Young attorneys in the Los Angeles office of Arnold & Porter are gaining valuable trial experience through a unique progra...
SACRAMENTO - Scott Thorpe, a 35-year veteran of the California attorney general's office, has been named chief executive offic...
Focus Column - By Bryan W. Wenter - The California Supreme Court recently put the brakes on a case that could have fundamental...
Forum Column - By Glenn C. Smith - The Supreme Court could have avoided the sloppy free-speech jurisprudence of Morse v. Fr...
California can't borrow money to meet its ever-growing obligation to public-employee retirees without first seeking voter appr...
WASHINGTON - The two prosecutors favored to be the new U.S. attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco likely will face smooth...
Forty years before William Ayres was accused of molesting boys, the prominent San Mateo County child psychiatrist roiled the ...
LOS ANGELES - A child who suffered severe brain damage and motor impairment as a result of untreated jaundice was awarded $96....
LOS ANGELES - Talk about jumping out of a plane without a parachute. Virgin America company was grounded in late 2006. The fl...
Forum Column - By Paul S. Weiland - The recent ruling in U.S. v. Atlantic Research clarifies the legal obligations of p...
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge H. James Ellis found his way to the bench through the jungles of Vietnam. ...
In a roundtable session, Michael V. Gisser, of Skadden Arps, Stephen D. Blevit, of Sidley Austin, and David M. Hernand, of Lat...
Corporate
Lawyer's Testimony Implicates Former Brocade Chief Executive
By Craig Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes admitted knowing the accounting implications of granti...
Litigation
No Joke: Judge Won't Issue Injunction Banning Jack in the Box Ad
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Having a bubble-headed corporate spokes-clown laugh uproariously at you on national television is bad enough. But ...
LOS ANGELES - Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps will expand its Southern California real estate practice this summer when ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Bush Administration's Position on Stem Cells Leads to Unnecessary Suffering
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The president's stubborness on vital medical research is needlessly keeping millions of Am...
LOS ANGELES - Noted legal ethicist and former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney Rod Leonard died Friday. He was 63. ...
Forum Column - By Linda F. Atcherley - Changes to California's workers' compensation laws have led to disability payments bein...
SACRAMENTO - Peace officers in Los Angeles and several other major cities in California appear to have blocked a bill that wou...
Focus Column - By Gary A. Starre and Harold J. Cohn - Preparation is key when dealing with the twin traumas of divorce and ins...
Judges and Judiciary
Joint Budget Panel Rejects Judicial-Retirement Reform
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - A joint Assembly and Senate budget committee has rejected an effort to approve a retirement package for some judg...