Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - A former prosecutor says Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has set himself up for a wire-...
Law Practice
Lawyer Must Face Sanctions for Appeal Tactics, Panel Says
By Laura Ernden
A Sacramento lawyer who got in trouble last year for "an appeal run amok" faces sanctions and a possible State Bar suspension....
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury has awarded more than half a million dollars to a woman bitten by a pit bull during a 2005 attack as sh...
A vote set for Friday on whether to create a new .xxx suffix for sexually explicit Web site addresses has both the adult enter...
On the downslope of his 30s, San Rafael neutral Hadden W. Roth found his seat on the Marin County Municipal Court bench too co...
The California Supreme Court Thursday made it tougher for criminal defendants to claim prosecutors violated their speedy trial...
Litigation
Rift Emerges Between U.S., Local Authorities in Video Case
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite a recent setback, San Francisco police say they are trying to make new arrests stemming from a violent...
LOS ANGELES - A recent proposal to give Internet domain-name owners greater privacy rights in divulging their personal informa...
Judge Linda McFadden urges the youngsters before her to face the truth of their behavior so that they will never return to h...
Peter Mixon, general counsel for the nation’s largest public pension, is sending a message to the SEC: We demand tighter regul...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower-court ruling allowing a man convicted wrongly of murder to s...
Focus Column - By C. Matthew Schulz and Mechal Perl - The filing deadline is almost here for the few visas available permittin...
Forum Column - By Joseph E. Herman - The Employee Free Choice Act is anything but what its name implies. ...
Litigation
Judge Denies Retrial to Accomplice Serving Longer Sentence Than Shooter Did
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Despite testimony that a defense lawyer refused to engage in plea bargaining, cursed the prosecutor during trial...
Longtime Monterey County Superior Court Judge Michael S, Fields will retire this week under a cloud of suspicion for alledged ...
LOS ANGELES -A massive nationwide pet food recall is feeding a wave of class actions from Connecticut to California. ...
Technology & Science
Dispute Over Digital Archives Rests on Nature of Internet
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - A nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the digital world in an ever-expanding online library is tangled up ...
SACRAMENTO - The Legislature sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a bill Wednesday to fix the state's indeterminate sentencing law ...
Judges and Judiciary
Tearful Monterey Superior Court Judge Pleads With Panel to Keep Job
By Amy Yarbroughn
Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - Tearing up at one point, embattled Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose A. Velasquez plea...
Former adversaries in the quest to lure online guitar aficionados have joined forces, as Musicnotes Inc., the largest U.S.-bas...
LOS ANGELES - The role of criminal courts is to hold defendants accountable when they commit crimes. But if the crime is sleep...
SAN BERNARDINO - The union representing San Bernardino County's 300 prosecutors and public defenders has sued its former labor...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - A special master's job of directing the cleanup of Boston Harbor is a good example of ho...
Focus Column - By Nathaniel Bruno - The U.S. will have a new intellectual property enforcement agency if a bill gets through C...
Forum Column - By Dan Kravitz - When your 401(k) is maxed out, what do you do with all of your extra money? A pension speciali...
WASHINGTON - The overworked federal court for the Los Angeles-based Central District of California will soon have its fourth n...
Government
Justices Seem Reluctant to Let Securities Antitrust Cases Proceed
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Expressing concern for U.S. financial markets, the Supreme Court seemed hesitant Tuesday to allow plaintiffs to p...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ex-cabbie-turned-lawyer Larry Sager knows all the short cuts. For instance, how do you get to the corner of Ar...
A prominent Beverly Hills dermatologist who consistently thumbed her nose at the courts has set a precedent paving the way for...
Solano County Superior Court Commissioner Barbara S. James handles as many as 250 cases a day in her courtroom - and that's ...