Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - "California's child support statutes are a legal world unto themselves." This statement, f...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Albert M. Cohen - On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that radically alt...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court officials on Wednesday announced a $2 increase in certain court filing fees. The pric...
LOS ANGELES - A battle is brewing between the popular Mexican grocery conglomerate, Grupo Gigante that has long used its trade...
Judges and Judiciary
Odd Evidence Never Tires Or Bugs This Commissioner
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - "Your honor, we have the tire here. Do you want to look at it?" San Francisco Court Commissioner Geraldine D....
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court waded into a difference of appellate opinions Wednesday involving Johnnie Cochra...
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union has sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection over its failure to produce recor...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Frank J. Breslin, a longtime civil litigator and probate attorney. Breslin, who p...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming that the state owes the cou...
Forum Column - By Pattrick Mattimore - Assume for a moment that a person came to you with information about the identity of an...
LOS ANGELES - Six days after Cardinal Roger Mahony's sworn statements prompted calls for perjury charges against the prelate, ...
Criminal
Mack 'the Alleged' Knife Is Due Back in Town for B.I.G.-Suit Testimony
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Anyone who becomes nostalgic over conspiracy theories and murder will get all choked up over this o...
LOS ANGELES - In the shadow of a recent state Supreme Court decision to review a landmark HIV transmission case, a Glendale ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors often assay courtroom truth-telling better than judges do because jurors have broader life experience,...
SANTA ANA - Most defense attorneys say that U.S. District Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler is on the conservative side of the law a...
LOS ANGELES - A judge threw out a lawsuit filed against AT&T under the state's Unfair Competition Act, saying a 2004 voter...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge ruled Wednesday that an auto insurance company failed to prove that search engine Google Inc. infr...
INDUSTRIAL NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Meridith Childers purchased a 4,000-square-foot industrial facility located at 10707-09 Burbank ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles took just 21/2 hours Tuesday to convict local attorney Christian Ehlers of 21 cri...
Forum Column - By Lisa Bruiniers, Craig Ching, Mark Goossens and Dan Taylor - Eyewitness identification procedures -photo spre...
Forum Column - By Cheryl I. Harris - As we come to the close of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education , there is...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Kevin Norte - AB3078, approved by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on July 15, 2004, amends, in part,...
Proposition 21, the measure passed by voters to toughen sentences, is tough, all right. The measure can add years to a senten...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court affirmed Tuesday a district court ruling that the maker of the popular BlackBerry han...
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena trusts and tax attorney who worked for some of the Southland's most prominent families has agreed to...
SAN FRANCISCO - An asbestos case that fell prey to a civil discovery "urban legend" should be revived, the 1st District Court...
LOS ANGELES - Garment workers ended a lawsuit and a three-year boycott of Forever 21 Inc. Tuesday with an out-of-court settle...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court will hear arguments today over whether a disabled foster child can sue the Los Angeles Count...
SAN FRANCISCO - If and when the death verdict against Scott Peterson becomes final, he will have to contend with a capital ap...
SAN FRANCISCO - A prolific pro se has taken his beef all the way to the top. Chief Justice Ronald M. George remains a defenda...