Environmental
9th Circuit Won't Kick Shrew Off Endangered Species List
By Dennis Pfaffn
The Buena Vista Lake shrew is a tiny creature with a big problem, insofar as there may be fewer than three dozen of the animal...
Judges and Judiciary
From Russia, With Love: Rehab Aspect of U.S. Judicial System Impresses Visitors
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A Russian judge who observed San Diego courts last week is taking home new ideas about juvenile justice, and she p...
Criminal
Federal Hate-Crimes Trial in 1999 Murder of Black Man Set to Begin
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth Wilson was parking a friend's car on Avenue 52 in Los Angeles' Highland Park area on the morning of Apri...
Judges and Judiciary
Turmoil Over Training Clouds Judge Association Election
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - Amid growing political controversy over proposed mandatory training for judges, the board of the California Ju...
Civil Rights
Full 9th Circuit Panel Weighs School's Hawaiians First Policy
By Amelia Hansenn
Several judges on a federal appeals court panel said Tuesday that a private school that gives preference to native Hawaiian st...
Judges cannot order convicted sex offenders to be hooked up to a machine that checks their sexual arousal levels without first...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Justice touted its progress combating intellectual property theft in a progress report ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named 12 new trial court judges Tuesday, a mix of eight Republicans, three Democrat...
LOS ANGELES-A judge hit the city with another multimillion dollar judgment Monday, awarding nearly $19 million in penalties an...
LOS ANGELES - Membership peaked at 60 just before Operation Desert Storm, the war to oust Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait ...
The California Bar has revived an initiative to require lawyers to disclose to clients if they do not carry malpractice insura...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren, whose high-profile cases included the same-sex marria...
Forum Column - By Clifford Yin - As a first-year associate with only a few weeks of law-firm experience under my belt, I found...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Property rights. It's the issue of the day - every day. It is hard to pick up a newspape...
Constitutional Law
A Delicate Balance: The Exigent-Circumstances Exception
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - The hottest topic in search-and-seizure law this year has been the exigent-circumstance...
SACRAMENTO - Advocates of the Proposition 36 drug-treatment program accused a lawmaker Monday of trying to sneak into the budg...
LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Traurig has hired Paul Schumacher to lead a broker-dealer securities litigation practice for the firm'...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a California policy that subjects parolees to warrantless, suspicionless ...
Firm Watch
Bolstering Thelen Reid's Intellectual Property Practice in Los Angeles
By Drew Combsn
LOS ANGELES - As part of efforts to beef up its intellectual property practice in Los Angeles, Thelen Reid & Priest has an...
Judges and Judiciary
Memorial Service for Byrne Set for Friday in Los Angeles
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday at the U.S. District Courthouse in Los Angeles for Judge William Matth...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Los Angeles environmental attorney Sandra Segal Ikuta to the 9th U.S. Circuit...
Column - By Peter Blumberg - These are ethically challenging times for state supreme court justices across the nation. The be...
Law Practice
Irell Lawyer Negotiated Sale of Klimt's 'Adele Bloch-Bauer I'
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer from Los Angeles negotiated the sale of the gold-encrusted Gustav Klimt masterpiece that sold for the h...
SAN FRANCISCO - One Marin County woman, thinking her divorce was final, had remarried. "How am I going to explain this to my h...
LOS ANGELES - In a move expected for months, Mark A. Neubauer announced Monday he and his team of business litigators will dep...
WASHINGTON - A high-stakes U.S. Supreme Court dispute over the Clean Water Act ended in disarray Monday as no five justices co...
LOS ANGELES - Nearly 20 years after Glendale police officers burst into Aiad Barakat's home and arrested him using a little-kn...
SAN FRANCISCO - The couple was drunk, and the sex was rough. When it was over, more than a quarter-century ago, Deborah Ellen ...
Judges and Judiciary
Newspaper Was Right to Report Story Behind Defeat of Judge
By Amy Kalinn
Letters to the Editors - As an evicted tenant of Lincoln Place Apartments in Venice, I was happy to see your June 13 article a...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - On June 6, the voters of Los Angeles County voted out an incumbent Los Angeles Superior Co...