Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Conservatives Fire at Reinhardt's Habeas Rulings Again
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - They took the weekend off, but conservatives on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday resumed hammer...
Personal Injury & Torts
Supervisors Win $1 Million for Retaliatory Firing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - He's one of the most well-known physicians in the Inland Empire. He owns Desert Valley Hospital, a medical cente...
LOS ANGELES - On his first day as Los Angeles deputy mayor in charge of homeland security, Maurice Suh flew up to Sacramento t...
UNION BRAWL - A weekend brawl at a San Dimas juvenile camp that sent five minors and a deputy probation officer to the hospita...
SAN FRANCISCO - During the high-flying days of the late 1990s' tech boom, it was all about going public. It's no surprise tha...
OFFICE SANTA ANA - CB Richard Ellis/Melody arranged a $15.95 million loan for Broe Real Estate to purchase the Irvine Corpora...
Focus Column - Laurie L. Levenson - They are all the rage today - subpoenas. Lawyers seem to be working in overdrive to win th...
Family
Party's Family Wealth Should Be Weighed in Divorce-Fees 'Leveling'
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Getting a divorce is an expensive proposition. Aside from the additional costs associated ...
Forum Column - By Edward J. Loya Jr. - Court observers, Republicans and Democrats alike, eagerly await the Roberts court's for...
Labor/Employment
Riverside Officer Wins $1.6 Million in Bias Verdict
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court jury has awarded a Riverside police officer $1.6 million after agreeing with his...
LOS ANGELES - Prominent intellectual property and antitrust attorney Carole Handler has joined Foley & Lardner as vice cha...
LOS ANGELES - A state Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that U.S. foreign policy supersedes state law in a case filed by Holocaus...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to grab a slice of the West Coast's venture-backed technology market, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal...
Judges and Judiciary
Paper Must Pay $3 Million for Libel
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A San Bernardino judge Friday awarded a sheriff's counselor $3 million for her claims that the publisher of a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The president's use of executive authority to indefinitely extend the enlistment of National Guard members ser...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Sees Her Role as Public Relations for Courts
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Carol J. Hallowitz says her job is more than just handing out fines for ...
MULTIFAMILY SACRAMENTO - A 272-unit apartment community at 2300 Innovator Drive sold for $37.5 million. Stanford Jones, Gary ...
Law Practice
Client Sees No Conflict With Murder Case of Attorney's Wife
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The Orinda woman whose high-profile murder trial has been delayed by the slaying of her attorney's wife said T...
Forum Column By Edward H. Telfeyan President Bush revealed far more about himself than he and his advisers ever would have wa...
SAN FRANCISCO - You might call the case a yawner. A San Benito County prosecutor and defense attorney say a sitting judge and ...
Constitutional Law
Constitution is No Cure-All for Society's Ills
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - I write in response to the column by John Martinez, "Constitution Will Exist Only as Long as the Living...
Administrative/Regulatory
DA's New Investigation Chief Brings Political Savvy
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced Thursday that she has hired Chris Cunnie, the former p...
Government
Failure to Pay Bar Dues Raises More Questions About Miers
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Failure to pay bar dues is not an uncommon slip-up, especially among nonpracticing attorneys. But word that Harr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton dodged a bullet Thursday when a San Francisco-based appellate panel toss...
WASHINGTON - Congress agreed Thursday to legislation broadly shielding weapons makers and sellers from lawsuits stemming from...
SACRAMENTO - Kern County sends 13 defendants to prison for life under the state's "three strikes" law for every one defendant...
LOS ANGELES - Emotions run red hot when a couple divorces. But a recent marriage dissolution burned more viciously because the...
SAN JOSE - The transition from attorney to judge is not always a smooth one, as Carrie A. Zepeda, a well-regarded Santa Clara ...
LOS ANGELES - USC Gould School of Law Dean Matthew L. Spitzer is resigning his administrative post but will remain at the scho...
LOS ANGELES - Thirteen-year-old Daun'ne M. Land doesn't want to look like everyone else at school. But spiked hair or "Gothic...