Criminal
Months Into Trial, Associates of Nazi Low Riders Prison Gang Take Plea Deal
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - After eight weeks of trial on federal racketeering charges, two affiliates of the Nazi Low Riders prison gang wo...
LOS ANGELES - Call it a delicacy. Call it a phenomenon. Just don't call it yogurt. Pinkberry attorneys are working to find an...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
It's Time to Diversify the State's Legal Profession
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Ann I. Park - California's legal profession is lagging desperately behind in the pursuit of diversity. ...
A federal court judge in Utah has blocked a lawsuit that threatened to put small karaoke companies all over the country out of...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside criminal defense lawyer has surrendered his law license and pleaded guilty to one count of drug posses...
Investments
Study Faults Mandatory Securities Arbitration as Anti-Investor
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - A new study shows investors are losing ground in mandatory arbitration of their complaints with stockbrokers. ...
San Francisco County Supervisor Ed Jew faces a double-pronged attack from the city attorney, who is trying to get Jew ousted f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ratcheted up his war of words with the Bush administration over global warming Wedn...
Marin County Judge Terrence Boren's nimble command of the code and his measure of punishment and compassion has won the respec...
Focus Column - By William F. Sullivan and Eleanor K. Mercado - Class certification in securities-fraud cases is becoming much...
Facing $1.7 million in potential damages in a breach-of-contract case, dancer Vidala Aaronoff had no choice but to represent h...
SAN FRANCISCO - When skeptics posted online video debunking Uri Geller's claim to bend spoons with his mind, the London-based ...
Web Exclusive - The latest new documents from the Justice Department do not make the case that White House officials orchestra...
LOS ANGELES - In the courtroom, it would have been a hung jury. But on Monday night, superstar litigator Robert Shapiro was co...
Forum Column - By Jill A. Singer - Workers' compensation reform has gutted the injureds' ability to take care of themselves. ...
Focus Column - By Roderick Walston - Congressional legislation involving America's waterways would dramatically increase the p...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge James Henke, a vociferous critic of trial-court unification and advocate for small court bra...
LOS ANGELES - Six months after Broadcom Corp. released the findings of an internal investigation that revealed widespread stoc...
The infant daughter of dead starlet Anna Nicole Smith appears more likely to inherit her mother’s legal bills than a multimill...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Opinion Becomes Cause for Congress
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress aren't shy in letting the Supreme Court know when they don't like one of its rulings. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of a redevelopment plan for the Bayview-Hunters Point area who gathered signatures for a ballot refe...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In Superfund Shift, High Court OKs Voluntary-Cleanup Suits
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Reaching a different conclusion than it did three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a private p...
Focus Column - By Gordon McAuley - Gordon McAuley examines the implications of more-stringent antitrust laws for the trucking ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Justices Take Bias Case on Testimony
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider an employment-discrimination case to decide whether judges must ...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney who defrauded clients of $293,000 in a variety of investment schemes was sentenced Monday to four ye...
Forum Column - By Barbara J. Cox - Barbara Cox celebrates the 40-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions that legalize...
Transactions
Electronic Arts Gets Into the Asian Game With Chinese Investment
By Jason Songn
Deals Column - By Jason Song - Marketing the world's most popular sport in the world's most populous country seems like a natu...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Monday to force federal officials to help locate ...
Republicans are getting all the heat over firing and hiring of U.S. attorneys, but Democrats are no strangers to finding strat...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Agrees to Take Case on Sentencing
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Wading into the controversy over federal penalties for crack-cocaine offenses, the U.S. Supreme Court announced M...