Judges and Judiciary
White Men Curiously Absent From Gov's Shortlist
By Peter Blumberg
Column - By Peter Blumberg - Stung by criticism that he has named too many white men as judges, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger app...
LOS ANGELES - Nothing is ever the same after a new spouse joins a family. The competing reality television shows "Wife Swap" o...
LOS ANGELES - Gloria Allred, who is known for shepherding witnesses through high-profile murder cases and appearing on cable t...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Thursday threw out corruption convictions of former City Councilman Michael Zucchet. U.S. Distr...
LOS ANGELES - After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, more than 1,000 FBI agents were shifted from white-collar and narcotics i...
LOS ANGELES - A man who admitted to resisting arrest can sue the city of Sacramento for civil rights violations because a pol...
CALTRANS SUIT NOT DEAD - An Alameda County Judge on Thursday dismissed the City of Oakland's suit against Caltrans that demand...
SACRAMENTO - It's normal for a 14-year-old son of divorced parents to feel anxious about leaving his school and friends in or...
Administrative/Regulatory
Voters Keep Cross Off Seal Of Redlands
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
REDLANDS - They live in the "City of Churches," but Redlands voters - threatened with potential litigation - have decided not...
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of San Francisco's new gun control ordinance, the strictest in the nation, quickly set their sights ...
LOS ANGELES - In his 11 years on the bench, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas N. Townsend has been what attorneys...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - "Why is a lawyer like a [fill in the blank]?" We have all heard far too many dreadful...
Focus Column - By Sabina Clorfeine - When the California Supreme Court hands down a decision that may affect every service ind...
LOS ANGELES - A Pomona jury awarded $5.2 million in punitive damages Wednesday against an insurance company for denying a cou...
Insurance
Missing Picasso Launched Long Running Investigation of Lawyers
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - On a summer evening in 1992, a Picasso and a Monet insured for $12.5 million disappeared from the Brentwood hom...
Appellate Practice
Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Fight State's Bid to Uphold Ban
By Leslie Simmons
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's ban on same-sex marriage creates a "separate but equal fallacy that was repudiated 50 years ago," ...
Corporate
Nanoites Hunger for Big Bite of Apple After New iPod Leaves Sour Taste
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The Apple iPod Nano portable music player has one feature that's like a fly in the soup, a yuck factor that has...
Administrative/Regulatory
Church Abuse Hearing Spotlights 'Clergy Privilege'
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - The thorny issue of "clergy privilege" took center stage Wednesday during a hearing to compel a Los Angeles prie...
MISSILE INDICTMENT - A Los Angeles grand jury indicted two men Wednesday for conspiracy to import shoulder-filed missiles into...
LOS ANGELES - Further paving the way for alleged sexual-abuse plaintiffs to go to trial, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge T...
SAN FRANCISCO - With San Francisco police prepared to flee from the Hall of Justice because of earthquake concerns, can crimin...
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...