LOS ANGELES - Despite his 35 years of experience in the criminal justice system, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Norm J. Shap...
Forum Column - by Clay Calvert - Fans of the iconic 1990s television situation comedy "Seinfeld" may recall a particular episo...
Letter to the Editor - Let me begin by stating that I am a Republican and a strong supporter of President Bush. That being sai...
International
Nicaraguans Didn't Consent to Jurisdiction in Pesticide Case
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson - When manufacturers of a toxic pesticide, dibromochloropropane - known as DBCP - attem...
Judges and Judiciary
Conservative Ponders Other Possibility for High Court Pick
By Columnist
Letter to the Editor - In the days leading up to Judge [Samuel] Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, the press was reporti...
SAN FRANCISCO - McKesson Corp. has reached a settlement with two Merrill Lynch funds in a case that alleged the embattled comp...
SAN FRANCISCO - The children of a well-known building contractor who was beaten to death at his San Francisco business in 2003...
WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., urged a leading California congressman on Wednesday to prevent legislation that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than a month after three Los Angeles law firms hiked first-year associate salaries to $135,000, other fir...
Litigation
Confab in Seedy Phoenix Hotel Could Have $24 Billion Price Tag
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that meeting in Arizona was a sinister, secret gathering of capitalistic wolve...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federals appeals court Tuesday overturned the conviction of a paraplegic fugitive who shot and killed two Ri...
WASHINGTON - When now-Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. faced the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, he was peppered wit...
ACLU ANTIPODE- The American Civil Liberties Union softened its objections Wednesday to a plan by the city of Los Angeles to is...
LOS ANGELES - Raising six children of his own, including three foster kids, has given Judge Rudolph A. Diaz some advantage in ...
Forum Column - By Susan Rutberg and Janice Brickley - A year ago, 37-year-old Peter J. Rose walked out of Mule Creek State Pri...
Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - California has a strong public policy in favor of ade...
Government
Democrat Sues Governor Over Campaign Spending
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Attorney Lance Olson said the state's political watchdog agency ought to pay closer attention to the governor's f...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Lawyer Works on Unique Affordable-Housing Village at Fort Ord
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Joe Coomes has been working on the highly anticipated East Garrison affordable-housing village for more...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Investment Firm Acquires Defunct Power Station
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-based investment company has snapped up a defunct power station with plans to renovate the facilit...
Environmental
Suit Pushes Wildlife Agency to Lift Eagle's Endangered Status
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The bald eagle, the national symbol and a potent icon for environmental decline as well as renewal, could be r...
SANTA BARBARA - A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge said Tuesday he would look into allegations that a prosecutor pers...
LOS ANGELES - After four days of deliberations, a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday convicted a former Lynwood mayor, his sister and...
Constitutional Law
Case Pits Nation's Drug Laws Against Freedom of Religion
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In a case that pits a federal law protecting religious freedom against the nation's drug laws, the U.S. Supreme C...
SAN JOSE - Patent litigators have found themselves in the unusual and at times uncomfortable status as witnesses in a high-sta...
Government
Scarce Resources Limit Work of Political Watchdog
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Some political law attorneys say they couldn't be happier with the budget problems the state's political watchdog...
Letter to the Editor - Anyone who takes the time to educate themselves on Proposition 75 will see that the measure is pro-unio...
Family
Critics of Child Abuse Film Miss the Point in Rush to Defend Fathers
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Forum Column - By Paul J. Fink, Sol Gothard and Tasha Amador - The Family Court Reform Coalition, a national organization comp...
Appellate Practice
In Tricky Dance of Appeals, Timing of Filing Is Everything
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Focus Column - By Margaret M. Grignon - In addition to death and taxes, it is also a certainty that the California Court of Ap...
WASHINGTON - Issuing its second summary reversal of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in less than a month, the Supreme Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - A little-watched dispute over a method to diagnose illnesses could have enormous implications on patent law. I...