WASHINGTON - Legislation to move interstate class action litigation from state to federal court stayed on track for Senate ap...
SANTA ANA - The 19-year-old woman at the center of a gang-rape retrial admitted Wednesday to having sex on camera with one of...
Criminal
Attention, Publicity-Starved Politicians: New Use for Celebrity Defendants
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Have you ever wondered whether California's celebrity criminal defendants could serve a useful soci...
SAN FRANCISCO - After two months of intense negotiations, San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop and Washington, D.C.'s Shaw Pittm...
VENTURA - Santa Maria is quiet. Again. The Michael Jackson trial in the bucolic Central Coast city went on hiatus Wednesday, ...
LOS ANGELES - A picture is worth a thousand words - or, in Russell Christoff's case, $15.9 million. That's how much a Glendale...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor for the State Bar claims he was wrongfully forced out of his job and defamed by co-worker...
LOS ANGELES - A man who faked being a tax attorney pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud Tuesday during a break in jury s...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has ordered Judge Peter D. Lichtman removed as coordinator of Los Angeles Vioxx litigation af...
INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Irvine Biomedical Inc. signed a seven-year, $2.2 million lease for a 20,160-square-foot industrial buildi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The highest court in the West suddenly has been drawn into the fray over public displays of the Ten Commandmen...
Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - A republic, wrote John Adams, is "a government of laws, not men." Adams' succinct stat...
Criminal
State Big House Fails to Prepare Parolees For Anything But Failure
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California spends $1.5 billion annually on parolees who mostly fail while they are on paro...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jens B. Koepke - Your client, after losing a contentious trial, has been hit with a $1.5 millio...
RIVERSIDE - A memorial gathering will take place Thursday at Riverside's historic civil courthouse for Riverside Superior Cou...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Ana OKs Sale of Land to State for New Court of Appeal
By Tim Willert
SANTA ANA - Santa Ana has moved a step closer to retaining one in a series of state and federal courthouses that blanket the ...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Tuesday declined to prosecute the teen companion of the 13-year-old boy killed...
LOS ANGELES - At the end of a marathon, six-hour reading of her ruling in open court, U.S. Immigration Judge D.D. Sitgraves on...
LOS ANGELES - A supporter of Mayor Jim Hahn was fined $270,000 by the Ethics Commission n Tuesday for laundering $65,500 to th...
Judges and Judiciary
Republicans Disagree on How To Advance Judicial Nominees
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate's Republican leadership and the chairman of its Judiciary Committee appear to have differing visions o...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Leans on Nearly 30 Years in Legal Affairs
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Soon after he passed the bar in 1976, Allen Sumner began his legal career in the top echelon of state service, w...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Milton C. Grimes mounted a last-ditch argument recently after Commissioner Elizabeth Ha...
INDUSTRIAL SAN JOSE - Manufacturing Inc. leased 47,476 square feet of industrial space at 696 E. Trimble Road from F.E. Trimb...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for the Lerach firm and the attorney he said cost him a $5 million fee swapped insults Monday. Patri...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge criticized a San Francisco attorney on Monday for "plainly unethical" conduct in his representat...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Kareen V. Akry - In California, home to one of the wealthiest population...
Intellectual Property
Tax On Dissemination of Drug Information Tramples First Amendment
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James M. Wood - For decades, California has paved the health care path with incentives to prescription produ...
Real Estate/Development
Minorities, Seniors Should Cheer Predatory Lending Decision
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jan T. Chilton - Last week's California Supreme Court decision in American Financial Services Association...
HAYWARD - Glenn Oleon's best experience since taking the Alameda Superior Court bench 18 months ago was when an 11-year-old gi...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the second straight year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will get a significant boost in its annual...