LOS ANGELES - An elderly couple filed a proposed class action in Los Angeles federal court Monday against the American Investo...
LOS ANGELES - A Tunisian man Monday pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to immigration fraud, admitting he entered int...
Government
Enron Flick May Be Just the Ticket to Rehab Terminator's Hapless Victim
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Former Gov. Gray Davis has the kind of pallor that could benefit from a couple of days in a tanning...
LOS ANGELES - Roger W. Boren is a storyteller. Boren, the administrative presiding justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Many experienced trial attorneys believe that the most important part of a criminal tria...
Administrative/Regulatory
Throwing Out Baby, Bathwater And All, For Sake of Human Rights
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Loubna Freih and Joanna Weschler - On Thursday, Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations, did...
Letter to the Editor - In his article about pre-employment background checks ("Follow Rules About Background Checks to Hire Wi...
Letter to the Editor - Amidst all the uproar over the case of Terry Schiavo, Americans have heard very little about the Bush a...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Superior Court Judge Helped Build JAMS
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service is scheduled today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge and JAMS co-founder Bonnie Le...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego City Council and members of the city's retiree pension board broke state and municipal laws in actio...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Conference Pushes Peer Mediation for Youth
By Adrianna Khoo
LOS ANGELES - Deborah Thomas says she likes to think that, "as long as a kid still has a sparkle in his eye, you can still hel...
SANTA ANA - The teenage boy is slumped over, an empty bottle of booze at his feet. Despair is his only companion. Behind him, ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday refused to halt the deployment an Oregon National Guardsman who is challenging the fo...
LOS ANGELES - Political rhetoric directed at judges over the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case is dangerous and threatens Americ...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Fred Blum - For almost two decades, federal cost recovery litigation was in stasis. One ...
ONTARIO - After failing twice in the past five years, University of La Verne College of Law is renewing its quest to become th...
Focus Column - Litigation - By John F. Fielder - A landmark case that regulates the use of medical testimony helps to weed out...
Letter to the Editor - Though I didn't completely fathom, or, therefore, agree with, Sherry F. Colb's essay on prostitution an...
Labor/Employment
Myriad Rules Dictate When, How Employers Must Investigate
By Columnist
Employment Column - Gary P. Scholick and Cynthia E. Maxwell - State and federal rules combine to create a roadmap for employer...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered the district attorney's office to produce agenda minutes from two con...
COSTA MESA - Santa Ana isn't leaving anything to chance in its bid to keep the 4th District Court of Appeal from moving down t...
Government Contracts
Police Officers' Employment Records Will Remain Secret
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - Ruling against media access, a state appellate court said Thursday that police-officer records kept by an outsid...
INDUSTRIAL COMMERCE - A private investor purchased a 136,720-square-foot industrial building at 2747 Malt Ave. from the Nishi...
Litigation
Johnnie Cochran Gets Los Angeles Send-Off
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Five thousand mourners crammed the West Angeles Cathedral on Wednesday to bid farewell to Johnnie L. Cochran Jr....
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Exhausted? You'd better be - at least before you go the courts wi...
Constitutional Law
State of Texas Clashes With World Court in Death Penalty Case
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - On June 24, 1993, Jose Medellin, with four other gang members, committed the brutal rape...
Zoning, Planning and Use
State Courts Can 'Ripen' Developers' Cases for Federal Courts
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Not all land developers are evil, and they certainly don't want to waste money on litiga...
Letter to the Editor - It is with great sadness that I learned of the death of Fred Korematsu, who died on March 30. The Oakla...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service took place for Robert Sponheim, long-time investigator with the Los Angeles district attorney...
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer may take up the cause of Americans denied life insurance policies because th...