Focus Column - By Judith A. Rosenberg - State and federal courts are increasingly using monitors to assist with oversight of s...
Forum Column - By Daniel Wolk - A few months ago, having survived what Scott Turow once called the "wholesale drama" of a lega...
Technology & Science
Don't Outlaw Gender Selection; Leave it Up to Mom and Dad
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar - A boy or a girl? Now parents can decide. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine recently...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - On Friday, Oct. 28, at 12:40 p.m., the same hour that Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indic...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Ethics commissioners split with their own investigators Tuesday and fined City Councilman Jack ...
LOS ANGELES - With concern over a potential bird-flu pandemic on the rise, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis announced it...
LOS ANGELES - For the first time since the dot-com bust, venture capital investments in Internet companies are surging in wha...
LOS ANGELES - A former branch-store manager of the popular Los Angeles-based clothing manufacturer American Apparel voluntaril...
LOS ANGELES - A convicted murderer will get to ask a new judge for a new trial after successfully disqualifying the first judg...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the nation's former top health officials Tuesday ripped a state-proposed warning that would advise cons...
LOS ANGELES - Television networks could face a slew of lawsuits from cable channels claiming breach of contract now that NBC ...
LOS ANGELES - This week, four South Los Angeles tenants took their landlord to court, accusing him of a series of violations d...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won one and lost one Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, with the just...
LOS ANGELES - Autonomy Corp., whose software helps businesses keep track of data, agreed to buy competitor Verity Inc. for $50...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether President Bush has the authority to establish militar...
INDUSTRIAL CORONA - Star Pipe Products purchased a 110,752-square-foot industrial building at 1223 Sherborn St. for $8.4 milli...
Focus Column - By Thomas C. Klein - In September, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 439, which amends the Californ...
Forum Cloumn - By Richard Mac Bride - A few months ago, on the morning of July 26, federal authorities raided the Petit Jean P...
Family
Pro-Father Columnist Has a Point But Misses Bigger Picture
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - The collective well-thought-out, reasoned and articulate response by Paul J. Fink, Judge Sol Gothard an...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - The Select Committee on Special Issues, a bipartisan committee led by Assemblyman Mervyn D...
SAN LUIS OBISPO - When Gov. Gray Davis appointed Judge Charles Stevens "Steve" Crandall to the San Luis Obispo County Superior...
LOS ANGELES - The Internet file sharing outfit Grokster Ltd., in a surprise announcement Tuesday, said it would pay $50 milli...
LOS ANGELES - Richard A. Foxx, a prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer and co-founder of the American Board of Trial Advocates, ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles neutral Lee Jay Berman recently returned from India with a bronze statute of Buddha, a symbol of kno...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has overturned an immigration judge's denial of asylum to a Chinese Christian, saying th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ian Ballon, a leading commentator on the intersection of Internet, entertainment and intellectual property la...
Government
Thumbs Up to Thumbs Off: Justice in America Goes Under the Knife
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Flamboyant Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman caused a stir last week when he declared that surgery should be enliste...
THREATS POSE NO CONFLICT - You can still get a fair trial in Los Angeles even if you threaten a trio of judges, a federal appe...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys on Friday asked a federal judge to block a growing trend in which county jails are closing their law lib...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Bullock left San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass in 2002 in pursuit of writing the great Ame...