Administrative/Regulatory
City, County Agree to Improve Handicap Access
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and the Superior Court agreed Tuesday to spend the next 18 months and up to $9 million impro...
LOS ANGELES - The testimony of a 26-year-old man who has accused a former priest of molesting him years ago went from tearful...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Mitidiere figured he had a pretty good construction-defect class action when he found a Las Vegas retireme...
LOS ANGELES - Eliminating the threat of a lawsuit, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday gave a $50,000, 12-week consulting jo...
SAN FRANCISCO - James G. Butler Jr., a senior trial attorney with San Francisco's Veen Firm, is the new president of the San F...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
9th Circuit Joins Others, Strikes Partial-Birth Act
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Congress' ban on certain late-term abortions is unconstitutional, a unanimous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...
LOS ANGELES - Girls 1, Boys 1. And both sides were happy with the score. Senior U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian approve...
SAN FRANCISCO - On a summer day in 2000, 12-year-old Anthony McCurdy was on his way to a Chicago bowling alley when the front ...
WASHINGTON - Seven months ago, the state Supreme Court pronounced the state's criminal sentencing system constitutionally hea...
SAN JOSE - Privacy advocates are trying a new strategy in their battle to stop the Bush administration's domestic surveillanc...
Judges and Judiciary
Alameda DA's Rejection of Black Jurors Is Upheld
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Alameda County prosecutors have yet again prevailed against allegations that they purposely excluded black juror...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Superior Court judges have elected Deputy District Attorney Cynthia A. Zuzga as a commiss...
WASHINGTON - A San Francisco federal appellate judge didn't mince his words Monday when asked about the dramatic rise in immig...
Focus Column - By Christopher J. Lovrien - The California Supreme Court has granted review in at least nine separate cases to ...
Constitutional Law
High Court's 'Ayotte' Ruling Bows to Political Expediency
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael Halley - Whenever a court pays lip service to the viability of a federal constitutional right, but d...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - We all ponder, on occasion, the possibilities of the road not taken. How would our li...
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Immigration Judge Anna Ho is accustomed to being overruled by higher authorities. Within the Justi...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was four weddings and a professional funeral for the career of Clark Leslie, a former San Mateo County cour...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Attorney Who Resigned From Bar Can't Practice
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney who resigned from the State Bar with disciplinary charges pending against him cannot practice in a...
LOS ANGELES - For more than a decade the glassy-winged sharpshooter has threatened to destroy the state's $33 billion wine ind...
LOS ANGELES - Withering under attacks from business interests and other tort reformers, the Southern California plaintiffs' b...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Gone Wild Can Turn Nation's Eye to Asylum System
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - It's rare that immigration judges make so much trouble on the bench that the public learns about them. But a ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Cooley Confronts the Crazy Crimeland Perception Problem
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Steve Cooley can't dance. In fact, you could call him the Bigfoot of California district attorneys. That's partl...
SAN FRANCISCO - Desperately trying to prove his U.S. citizenship, Salvador Rivera brought his mother and his Oregon birth cert...
LOS ANGELES -There's never a doubt that Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Valerie L. Baker is paying attention from the ...
Corporate
Another Memory Maker Pleads Guilty in Price-Fixing Settlement
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Another manufacturer of dynamic random access memory agreed Monday to plead guilty in federal court to conspiring ...
Government
Senator Clinton Uses Humor to Attack Bush in S.F. Speech
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Martha Z. Whetstone's explanation for getting Sen. Hillary Clinton to speak to the Bar Association of San Fran...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Professor Unearths Bar-Dues Exception for Those Over 70
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Boalt Hall professor of law emeritus Stephen Barnett says he may be getting older, but he's nobody's fool. What's...
SHOT IN THE FOOT - A convicted felon literally shot himself in the foot and then figuratively did it again when he called 9-1-...
HAWTHORNE - Downstream Exchange Co. LLC purchased the Villa Gardens, a 61,430-square-foot property at 3734 El Segundo Blvd., f...