By Douglas W. Kmiec - On the opening day of Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination hearings, the Democratic senators t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal appellate judges wrongly reversed a California man's death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wedne...
Judges and Judiciary
Prolific Writer, Independent Thinker Defies Pigeonholing
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - John T. Noonan Jr. has penned more than 200 scholarly articles and book reviews and more than a dozen major bo...
DUBIOUS DISTINCTION -- Can San Francisco, known as the country's ultraliberal city, really be among the "meanest" to homeless ...
LOS ANGELES - Catherine J. Pratt, a deputy counsel for Los Angeles County, has been elected a Los Angeles County Superior Cour...
LOS ANGELES - Officials with the U.S. District Court for the Central District have created a new magistrate judge position to ...
SACRAMENTO - A proposed two-year moratorium on California's death penalty cleared its first legislative committee hurdle Tuesd...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Gov. Pete Wilson went after several state affirmative action programs, a group of pro-affirmative action ...
Forum Column - By Patrick L. Mattimore and Jean Amabile - No one was surprised when Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorne...
Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - Three weeks have now passed since the Bush administration's program of extra-judicial e...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of Zwirn v. Schweitzer (ordered published Dec. 14) the 2nd District Court ...
LOS ANGELES - The next generation of TV hardly would be recognizable to Philo Farnsworth, the farm boy who invented the medium...
LAS VEGAS - The president of a now-defunct Las Vegas broker-dealer company has agreed to pay $153 million, including a record ...
LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers has become the latest Los Angeles-based law firm to raise associate base salaries, accord...
SAN FRANCISCO - California prison inmates may have time on their hands, but they had better not waste any before filing habeas...
LOS ANGELES - A law firm that shut down in Los Angeles years ago and later closed its doors in Ohio still must answer to a mal...
Law Practice
San Bernardino DAs, Defenders Get Pay Raise
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a 12.5 percent raise for attorneys in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday revived efforts by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and San Francisco City ...
Constitutional Law
Sea Club Says It Shouldn't Pay for Ties to Boy Scouts
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday on whether the city of Berkeley was within its rights to end a 5...
Administrative/Regulatory
Judge Sanctions Attorney for Talking Trash at Deposition
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday sanctioned a plaintiff's attorney involved in the church sex-abuse litigation for talking trash...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles federal prosecutors released details Tuesday of two guilty pleas in connection with the wiretapping ...
WASHINGTON - When it was time for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the only woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to quest...
BOOST FOR COURTS - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a $125.6 billion budget proposal Tuesday that includes funding for 150 ...
LOS ANGELES - CancerVax, Micromet Agree to Join Forces Biotechnology companies CancerVax Corp. and Micromet AG have announced ...
OFFICE LOS ANGELES - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged $63 million in financing for the purchase of 5900 Wilshire Blvd., a ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - As we look back on 2005, we are reminded of the many significant changes that occurred wit...
Briefly - Protests outside the homes of Los Angeles city animal shelter officials by members of a radical animal rights group ...
Judges and Judiciary
To Find Real Alito, Ignore the Hard Sell -- And the Witch Hunt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Caren Deane Thomas - When I recently received an invitation to a reunion of my Yale Law School class, it sti...
Judges and Judiciary
Questions for Alito Range from Judicial Restraint to 'Roe'
By Contributing Writers
Forum Contributions - By Leonard A. Leo • Justice Robert Jackson of the Supreme Court once famously wrote, "We are not final b...
LOS ANGELES - Two years ago, allegations of corruption within Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn's administration started flicker...