Criminal
In Penalty Phase, Restraints Do No More Damage Than Guilty Verdict
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Sherri F. Colb - Last month, in Deck v. Missouri , 2005 U.S. LEXIS 4180, the Supreme Court held that the sta...
Administrative/Regulatory
Parole Reform Holds Key to Fixing California's Prison Problems
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - "The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons," Fyodor Dost...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted one case for review, agreeing to decide whether a New York couple can sue fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - It took a San Francisco jury three hours to decide Cisco Systems had not infringed on a rival's patent. The c...
SANTA MARIA - Judge Rodney S. Melville's decision to seal notes sent to him by jurors deliberating Michael Jackson's fate is u...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Ends Filibuster, Clearing Way for Vote on Brown
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to end its filibuster on state Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, clear...
SAN FRANCISCO - Airport passengers randomly chosen for extra security checks can't invoke the Fourth Amendment if they get ca...
SANTA ANA - A judge threw out a suit by a fired Orange County district attorney spokeswoman Tuesday, saying she failed to pro...
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate panel Tuesday overturned a child molester's 60-years-to-life sentence on four counts of abusing...
SAN FRANCISCO - As the handicapping heats up amid the likely confirmation this week of California Supreme Court Justice Janice...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Cardinal Health 303 Inc. signed a one-year, $952,128 lease renewal for 83,520 square feet of industria...
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Warren R. Shiell - Attorneys representing married couples planning on ...
Forum Column - By Michael Halley - However long the Las Vegas odds were that the Senate would stand down from its once immine...
Litigation
Would-Be Censors Call In The Troops - Girl Scout Troops, That Is
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Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - May was a tumultuous, roller coaster ride of a month for the video game industry in the Unite...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial gathering took place Sunday in memory of retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mortimer G. Franci...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Justice Margaret Grignon of the 2nd District Court of Appeal joined Reed Smith's downtown Los Angeles of...
Litigation
U.S. Penalizes Exporter In Weapons Crackdown
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
GRAND TERRACE - A San Bernardino County company that manufactures air and water pumps has agreed to pay a $700,000 penalty to ...
Firm Watch
Ex-Patent Office Official Boosts Wilson's East Coast IP Presence
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to streamline its patent capabilities and step up its East Coast presence, Wilson Sonsini Goodri...
LOS ANGELES - Although advocates for medical-marijuana patients are fearful that Monday's decision could result in an uptick i...
Web Exclusive - LOS ANGELES - A federal jury yesterday awarded $9 million to a Guatemalan inventor who alleged that Microsoft ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County prosecutor did not violate the law when she withheld information about a coroner who testif...
Education
Law School Faces Financial Collapse, Accreditation Agency Says
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - West Los Angeles School of Law and its paralegal program face a financial collapse by December unless enrollment...
LOS ANGELES - A jury late Monday reached verdicts on two felony drunken-driving charges against a former Orange County presid...
Judges and Judiciary
Book Documents Swift Justice for Nazi Wartime Saboteurs
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will get some extra reading soon. Flamboyant Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - Californians gambled and won the right to file a class action in their home state against Harrah's and other ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A good lawyer may know better than to file a risky appeal challenging a plea bargain, but failing to follow a...
Cardiovascular device maker 3F Therapeutics Inc. has received $6 million in commitments toward its Series E financing, with he...
LOS ANGELES - In a move with wide-ranging implications for the burgeoning music-download business, Tom Waits' song publisher h...
A U.S. District Court jury in Massachusetts has found Boston Communications Group Inc., Cingular Wireless and Western Wireless...
INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Accelerated Imaging purchased a 9,215-square-foot industrial building at 5 Holland from Hedley Irvine LLC...