LOS ANGELES - Susan McRae, a veteran Daily Journal reporter, has won Los Angeles Press Club's 2004 Journalist of the Year awar...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place in Long Beach today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Harry T. Shafer. Shafe...
SAN DIEGO - Court errors that deprived a defendant of his right to a speedy trial have brought an order from an appellate cour...
Administrative/Regulatory
Judge Clears Discount Drug Initiative for Ballot
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge refused Tuesday to scrap a proposed prescription drug discount initiative, deal...
SAN FRANCISCO - Parishioners at a May 23 mass in Berkeley wept, cheered and rose to their feet upon learning their longtime p...
LOS ANGELES - After the 1992 Rodney King riots, determined volunteers organized L.A. City Camp to show inner-city youngsters h...
SACRAMENTO - A pair of legislators announced Tuesday they will seek a two-year moratorium on California's death penalty while...
SAN FRANCISCO - A sexual harassment case the San Francisco Housing Authority could have settled for $365,000 five years ago w...
LOS ANGELES - After Michael Jackson was acquitted of child-molestation charges Monday, the Internet wag Matt Drudge posted a p...
INDUSTRIAL VENTURA - World Market & Tile signed a lease for 15,000 square feet of industrial space at 2976 Golf Course Dri...
Constitutional Law
Outlawing Flag Burning Amounts to Desecration of Constitution
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Today is Flag Day. To celebrate, Congress is considering amending the First Amendment for...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - Laurie L. Levenson - Believe it or not, Michael Jackson's case is not the only child molestation...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Cupertino man who killed his young lover and kept the corpse in a box he used as a nightstand cannot be par...
Administrative/Regulatory
Inmates Get Mixed Opinion on Confinement at Supermax Prisons
By Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Prison inmates can establish a 14th Amendment liberty interest when seeking to avoid an assignment to high-securi...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to insert itself into a dispute over media-ownership rules, rejecting petiti...
Judges and Judiciary
Citing Marijuana Decision, Justices Kick Back Ruling on Homemade Machine Guns
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - One week after its medical marijuana ruling reinforced the reach of federal authority under the Commerce Clause, ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge agreed Monday to push back the trial date for former Fleishman-Hillard executives Doug Dowie and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Drug companies have wide latitude to use compounds patented by other companies to develop new drugs, the U.S. ...
Criminal
Conspiracy Theory Remains Key to Shrinking Rap-Murder Civil Case
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The Notorious B.I.G. case keeps getting smaller. More than three years after it was filed, the cons...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Monday struck down two of the last remaining challenges to the underpinnings of the plan...
SAN FRANCISCO - Curious authorities took note a few years ago when they discovered an ominous rust-colored swath discoloring t...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor Gets Break From Usually Strict Appeals Judge
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A young federal prosecutor with a string of reversals to his name got an unusual break Monday from a senior j...
LOS ANGELES - After a 14-week trial filled with lurid tales of boozing, body waxing and late nights in a private arcade, a San...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced three appointments to various state boards and positions in May. The governor appointed a...
Like the Los Angeles region, the roster of clients for the sports practice at Century City's Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mar...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former Judge Offers Clients 'Abundance of Experience'
By Geneva Whitmarsh
"Three of the most unpredictable things in the world are a stallion in heat, a woman in love and a jury," ADR mediator and arb...
The East African nations of Ethiopia and Eritrea have had a long, tumultuous history, marked with significant casualties durin...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Chief Justice Fights for Independent State Judiciary
By Adrianna Khoo
State Chief Justice Ronald M. George thanked the Beverly Hills Bar Association for supporting the independence of the judiciar...
Pulling up to the valet at the Beverly Hilton, The Scene gazed through the glass windows of the hotel lobby in awe. Standing b...
EXTRA Column - By Jeffrey Krivis and Mariam Zadeh - The X factor in mediation is the ability to influence the other side to pa...