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
By Columnist
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...
SAN DIEGO - Judge Janis L. Sammartino faces an array of daunting challenges as she prepares to step into the role of San Diego...
Judges and Judiciary
The War Between the Judges: Coming Here Sooner Than You Think?
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - "Take that, Reinhardt," federal appellate Judge Alex Kozinski yelled, squeezing off a round from his sniper rifl...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. may be a conservative with a strict-constructionist judicial philo...
Forum Column - By Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks - The 4-year-old boy is jumping up and down with joy. "Daddy! Daddy!" Dad ...
LOS ANGELES - In Los Angeles, a writing assistant for the sitcom "Friends" found jokes about supermodels harassing even though...
WASHINGTON - In a case that could affect tens of thousands of illegal aliens, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decid...
Government
Federal Grand Jury Gets Its 15 Minutes in the Public Spotlight
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - Last week's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice and false statements has ...
Forum Column - By Ruth Silver Taube Undocumented workers, whom employers are willing to hire for undesirable and often hazardo...
Judges and Judiciary
Anti-Miers Camp Dirties Meaning of 'Conservative'
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - The most distressing, and doctrinally bereft, aspect of the attacks on Harriet Miers for her patent uns...