LOS ANGELES - Chief Justice Ronald M. George has announced the appointments of 10 new members to the Judicial Council of Calif...
SANTA ANA - A former Orange County drug kingpin who challenged his life sentence following a landmark Supreme Court ruling has...
LOS ANGELES - The Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday approved a measure that will combine security and special officers ...
INDUSTRIAL CARSON - Granite Peak Partners purchased the 184,000-square-foot Centre Pointe industrial business park from an und...
Entertainment & Sports
Trial Starts in First U.S. Case on Camcording, Selling of Movies
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A federal prosecutor on Tuesday outlined the criminal case against Johnny Ray Gasca, the first person in the na...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a former Silicon Valley high-tech executive accused of scheming to murder a federal judge want th...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a recent conversation with a visitor, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leslie C. Nichols withdr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Some aged, blind or disabled legal immigrants have been denied state welfare benefits by a San Francisco appe...
SAN FRANCISCO - The always provocative 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski suggested during oral argument T...
LOS ANGELES - A jury of six men and three women was selected Tuesday to hear the high-profile federal wrongful-death suit bro...
LOS ANGELES - Vowing to shake up business-as-usual in City Hall, a fusion of powerful and lesser-known attorneys is taking a ...
INDUSTRIAL VAN NUYS - Wesco Track & Tire signed a $950,000 lease for 17,000 square feet of industrial space in the Commer...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Outsourcing: Mandatory Arbitration System Falls Short of Justice
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Lafflin - The problem with Rome is that everything is for sale. -Sallust Whereas voluntary arbitration...
Appellate Practice
Circuit Splits Involve Cases On U.S.- And Foreign Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Alan J. Heinrich, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - U.S. appeals...
Administrative/Regulatory
'Tampered' Warrant Deemed an Innocent Mistake
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals court ruled Monday that a San Francisco police officer committed an innocent mistak...
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite years of battling - twice finishing in a tie and a third time nearly so - the combatants in the Humbo...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Court Blocks San Francisco Hotel Owners' Takings Lawsuit
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Ending a 12-year legal dispute over San Francisco's hotel conversion ordinance, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Mon...
Criminal
Death-Row Inmate Received Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, High Court Holds
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - In the latest in a series of decisions highlighting the role of defense attorneys in capital cases, the U.S. Supr...
LOS ANGELES - The ACLU is protesting an initiative they say could create a secondary police force in Los Angeles without any ...
Litigation
Justices Will Review Antitrust Case Involving Ink Company in Southland
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review an antitrust case involving a Southern California-based ink company...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles appellate court research attorney Mary Lou Katz has been elected the newest Superior Court Commissi...
SAN JOSE - In a motion that Toshiba Corp. says could cost it billions of dollars in sales, attorneys for a Fremont technology...
Civil Rights
Advocacy Guns Take Aim at Press Critics of Notorious B.I.G. Case
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Perry R. Sanders Jr., the lead attorney for the estate of rap mogul Notorious B.I.G., came out with...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court dealt a sharp blow Monday to California's landmark financial privacy law, considered o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown, recently confirmed for a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for...
SAN DIEGO - Randa M. Trapp's journey to the legal world was anything but direct, but she had two guideposts from her parents ...
Law Practice
IP Lawyer Rejoins Her Mentor At Heller Ehrman's S.F. Office
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Annette Hurst started working with Patricia Thayer her first day as a young associate at Howard Rice Nemerovs...
SAN DIEGO - The arraignment of six city employees caught up in San Diego's pension scandal took a surprise turn Monday, when ...
A Montebello Fire Department volunteer who worked just 84 hours over three and a half shifts for the city recently settled for...
With a high-profile client roster, multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and tenure at her law firm Vicki Freimann's practice was ...