Appellate Practice
Beat Poet's Widow Can Sue L.A. Jail Over Wrongful Death
By Amelia Hansen
Call it poetic justice. A famous 350-pound Venice Beach beat poet who was jailed for having sexual contact with a teenager, fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - No judge likes it when litigants or lawyers abuse the justice system. Some judges impose sanctions. Others mak...
LOS ANGELES - Three veteran judges have retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench, one effective today and anot...
SUSPENSIONS Bell, Carole A. , London Blankenship, Mark Irvin , Riverside Dell'Osso, Michael , Tracy Dervaes Jr., Scott aka Sco...
LOS ANGELES - The courts have come a long way from landmark civil rights precedents establishing racial and gender equality. T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys routinely hire private investigators to hunt for evidence. Now, following explosive claims of miscon...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The great irony in the gargantuan march of tens of thousands in Los Angeles and othe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed veteran prosecutor Richard M. Goul to the seat on the Los A...
Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Ted M. Sichelman, and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - The year 2006 began with federal courts of ap...
SAN DIEGO - Bernard H. Siegan, a law school professor who counseled Eastern European and South American government officials o...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a senior art director in the marketing department of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Thomas Morris was ins...
LOS ANGELES - There is one thing that lawyers need to remember before appearing in U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert N. Block's cou...
LOS ANGELES - In a move leaving some participants and case observers crying foul, Los Angeles federal prosecutors gave documen...
SAN FRANCISCO - Expressing sensitivity for the rights of patent holders, a lively U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday fired a barr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday it would look at the regulatory underpinnings of the 1999 deal tha...
LOS ANGELES - Former tenants of a Lancaster apartment house, including 36 children, have won a $3 million settlement from the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Judge Wynne Carvill sought a change of pace when he applied for the bench in 2000, but landing ...
Forum Column - By Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. - It has been one year since our mentor and friend, the late Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., ...
Focus Column - By Curt Metzgar - Ever since the California Supreme Court decided Gray v. Zurich Ins. Co . 65 Cal.2d 263 (1966)...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just days after the release of a new book alleging steroid use by baseball slugger Barry Bonds, the U.S. Sente...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate panel Tuesday ordered a San Francisco Juvenile Court judge to reconsider a bisexual offender's peti...
WASHINGTON - Honduran citizen Mario Bustillo was arrested and convicted in Virginia of murdering a man outside a fast-food res...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Frank J. Johnson spends several weekends a year motorcycling in the desert with his sons. It's a hobby tha...
A Los Angeles judge signaled Tuesday that he would move french fries to the front burner in his court. Superior Court Judge We...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court expressed concern Tuesday about the lawfulness of the military tribunals President Bush es...
SAN JOSE - For decades it has been a near certainty that anyone who is caught misusing patented information will be forever ba...
LOS ANGELES - In 1996, nine years into his legal career, James N. Bianco decided to tackle the treacherous glaciers of Alaska'...
Forum Column - By Bert Brandenburg - The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , 05-...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Marin County court executive facing criminal charges for allegedly steering government contracts to h...
Entertainment & Sports
Legal Swats at Bonds Book
By Kevin Livingston, Dennis Opatrny And Joh
SAN FRANCISCO - Attempts by Barry Bonds to strike back at the authors of "Game of Shadows" - a book that claims the record-set...