LOS ANGELES - A top sheriff's official told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday that the razor-wielding gang member who slashed ...
LOS ANGELES - A downtown Los Angeles legal newspaper cannot, without public notice, be authorized to print probate or foreclos...
SANTA ANA - A sobbing teenage girl testified Tuesday that Alejandro Avila, on trial for the 2002 sex-murder of a 5-year-old S...
LOS ANGELES - Two animal rights activists acquitted last week of illegally demonstrating at Mayor Jim Hahn's San Pedro home a...
LOS ANGELES - Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward J. Weiss has been promoted to general counsel and executive vice president...
Appellate Practice
In One Day, 9th Circuit Suffers Three Reversals at High Court
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had a rough time at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, going 0-for-3 in opinions...
LOS ANGELES - The Terri Schiavo law, authorizing federal courts to intervene in a Florida decision regarding withdrawal of lif...
SAN FRANCISCO - About two-thirds of the California plants and animals considered endangered have not undergone mandatory revie...
LOS ANGELES - Opening the way for a large commercial air cargo facility at March Air Reserve Base, a Riverside judge Tuesday ...
SAN JOSE - A former Alameda County prosecutor testified Tuesday that he kicked three prospective jurors off a 1987 capital mur...
Judges and Judiciary
Bench Veteran Believes in Research, Research, Research
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Ann Murphy has two simple but critical words of advice for attorneys who w...
SAN JOSE - Apple Computer Inc. will not be subpoenaing the e-mail service provider of the operator of a Web site that publish...
LOS ANGELES - The ugly and epic battle over Terri Schiavo's fate could have been prevented by a simple legal form that most pe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Claims of racial and religious bias in Alameda County capital murder trials are part of a much broader current...
Focus Column - International Law - By Barbara Klementz and Laura Russell - When companies go public in the United States, many...
Law Practice
Two New Commissioners Join State's Political Practices Panel
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The Fair Political Practices Commission said goodbye Monday to two of its commissioners whose terms had expired,...
SANTA ANA - The prosecutor in the death-penalty case against Alejandro Avila told a jury during opening statements Monday that...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit Will Review Police Liability Ruling
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday to revisit its September ruling that Los Angeles and fede...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with a federal law that prevents prison officials from imposing undue burden...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
9th Circuit Cedes Call on Arbitration Dispute to the Arbitrator
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Only an arbitrator, not a judge, can rule whether an arbitration clause in a business agreement amounts to an...
Judges and Judiciary
Rehnquist Returns to Bench to Participate in Oral Arguments
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - When the associate justices of the Supreme Court appeared Monday morning promptly at 10 a.m. for the start of the...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury awarded $7 million late last week to Jane Lin in a lawsuit stemming from injuries she suffere...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday sentenced the mother-and-son grifter team of Sante and Kenneth Kimes to life i...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a politically charged dispute over one of President Bush's judicial ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco prosecutor charged by State Bar lawyers in January with defrauding a professional bask...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday questioned whether police can be sued for how they enforced a restraining order again...
LOS ANGELES - The city of South Gate is nearing a global settlement with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton over the firm's...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit to Reconsider Civil Rights Suit in Search for Parolee
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday to revisit its September ruling that Los Angeles and fed...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday threw out a racketeering lawsuit that had accused three U.S. Forest Service employees...
Judges and Judiciary
Routine Perils of Legal Career Include Ice Picks, Razor Blades, Guns
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Way back in 1987 during a sentencing hearing at the Torrance courthouse, a disgruntled client stabb...