SACRAMENTO - Buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court's affirmation of Oregon's assisted suicide law, advocates are renewing their dri...
Labor/Employment
Tangled Meal-and-Rest Issue Is Ripe for State's High Court
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Rod M. Fliegel - Last Friday, California's 4th District Court of Appeal weighed in on the ongoing high-profi...
Constitutional Law
Artful Dodge Can't Escape Decades of Precedent on Prosecutorial Limits
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Forum Column - By David Coleman - Monterey County prosecutors filed a felony criminal complaint against Carmelita Viray in Peo...
LOS ANGELES - More than a month after two key figures quit his campaign for state attorney general, Los Angeles City Attorney ...
LOS ANGELES - Leonard Green, Southern California's largest private equity firm, will pay $1.3 billion in cash and assumed deb...
A former priest, who had been charged with sexually abusing a boy in Los Angeles, pleaded no contest Tuesday to a lesser char...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has extended its deadline one week for staff employees to accept voluntary buy...
LOS ANGELES - A monster bout is shaping up this year for the pharmaceutical firm Merck and its pain-killing drug, Vioxx. And ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court seemed ready Tuesday afternoon to uphold a San Francisco tenant protection law that re...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors are considering seeking an indictment of a convicted drug dealer for the same major narcotic...
PLAYED OUT - The theatrical production was called "Boomers" because it was about people between 40 and 59 years old. Those fal...
LOS ANGELES - Qualcomm Completes Flarion Technology Buy Qualcomm Inc. , a supplier of wireless chips and technology licenses, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chances are, Cynda Riggins Unger is the only judge in the state to have a rock group named after her. It start...
Forum Column - By Radha A. Pathak - In Evans v. Chavis , 2006 U.S. LEXIS 757 (Jan. 10), the U.S. Supreme Court crafted a rule ...
Focus Column - By Randolph C. Visser and Kavita P. Lesser - As any corporation, insurer, or taxpayer is patently aware of by n...
LOS ANGELES - A 40-year-old man testified Monday that a former Catholic priest repeatedly sexually molested him while he live...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to get involved in a closely watched judicial elections case from Min...
Law Practice
Client Demands Strengthen the Business Case for Law Firm Diversity
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - As the face of corporate America becomes increasingly diverse and gender balanced, the smart money at law firms...
LOS ANGELES - Despite a larger than expected readership and much critical acclaim, Legal Affairs magazine will suspend its pr...
Administrative/Regulatory
Activists Claim Another Casualty: Ousted Animal Services Chief
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - Guerdon Stuckey knew the difficulties he faced. Animal rights activists had painted "murderer" on his predecesso...
Judges and Judiciary
Former DA Prefers Litigants Resolve Their Own Problems
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Claudia Silbar doesn't have much use for onerous family law orders. Often, the...
Entertainment & Sports
'CSI' Actors Deserve a Crack at Solving B.I.G.'s Murder
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Here's an obvious, easy, indubitably popular idea for the Los Angeles Police Department: Call the cast at "CSI" ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The maker of the popular BlackBerry e-mail device suffered another legal setback Monday when the U.S. Supreme ...
CREDIBILITY GAP - When foreigners apply for political asylum in the United States, it's not unusual for courts to find they've...
SAN JOSE - Google Inc.'s plan to create a digital library so books can be searched online has set the stage for a major legal...
REDWOOD CITY - ARCS Commercial Mortgage Co. provided $123.4 million in financing to Prometheus Real Estate Group Inc. for four...
LOS ANGELES - When Eleanor J. Hunter was 9, her family left Toronto for the warmer climate of Torrance. Finances were tight as...
Forum Column - By Nicole A. Ozer - The recent revelation that the federal government has been listening in on our phone calls ...
Native Americans
Transparency Would Improve Strength of Tribal Sovereignty
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Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy and wire fraud, is not typ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Because of a medical condition, California Supreme Court Justice Ming W. Chin will be not be present for the s...