SAN FRANCISCO - John Hemann, the former prosecutor of Enron CEO Andrew Fastow, will leave the U.S. attorney's office in San F...
Entertainment & Sports
'Dune' Writer's Estate Claims Game Maker Took Advantage of Giant Worm
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Nobody gets off this planet without paying more royalties. The 1965 science fiction novel "Dune" by...
INDUSTRIAL SORRENTO MESA - Alexandria Real Estate Equities purchased Nancy Ridge Research Center, a two-building, 87,298-squa...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese asked a Court of Appeal Tuesday to block an order forcing it to give...
LOS ANGELES - The world's largest law firm resolved one legal mess at the end of 2004, but it faces an even bigger one this ye...
Appellate Practice
Justices Back Mother Who Got Between Young Lovers
By Linda Rapattoni
SAN FRANCISCO - If Romeo had hired a lawyer to challenge a restraining order won by Juliet's mother, would Shakespeare have t...
Letters to the Editor - Your reporters consistently refuse to do their homework when they report on male domestic-violence vic...
Government
Public Employee Unions Turn Turtle, Resist Access to Government Papers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Public employee unions, once steadfast supporters of open government and freedom of informati...
Forum Column - By Joshua Spivak - Over the last several years, a slow, steady drumbeat has called for changes to the infamous ...
Administrative/Regulatory
New Filing Rules Play Havoc With Family-Court Calendars
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Periodically, someone in Sacramento gets an idea that he or she thinks is a good one and c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge John A. "Jack" Burke, a "wonderful gentleman" who spent nearly 25...
SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that a mobile-home rent-control ordinance adopted in Santee is valid even t...
WASHINGTON - A watchdog group in Washington, D.C., filed a Texas bar complaint against attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzal...
SAN FRANCISCO - When she graduates from Stanford Law School this spring, Shakti Belway will head not to a big law firm but to...
Public Interest
Bet Tzedek Will Honor Amgen For Contributing to Legal Aid
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - While many poor and disabled people throughout Los Angeles thank local nonprofit law firm Bet Tzedek for helping...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles federal judge freed state prison inmate Brian A. Buckley on habeas corpus two years ago, agreei...
INDUSTRIAL WEST HILLS - Gold Point Transportation Inc. signed a five-year, $3.13 million lease for 5.88 acres of industrial sp...
Government Contracts
Man Can Remove Wife's Life Support, Justices Say
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a closely watched right-to-die case, possibly clearing the w...
LOS ANGELES - Two thousand janitors on Monday celebrated a $22.4 million overtime pay settlement with supermarket chains Safe...
Book Review - By Richard M. Mosk - Having so much knowledge about and contact with Gov. Pat Brown, either directly or through ...
Much of the debate about tort reform has focused on limiting noneconomic damages to $250,000. The traditional argument in favo...
Focus Column - International Law - By C. Matthew Schulz - New rules for permanent employment certification applications promis...
Criminal
Public Defender Hires Lawyer Who Paid Inmates for Referrals
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In a move that has raised some eyebrows, the San Bernardino public defender's office has hired a lawyer wh...
Criminal
High Court OKs Use of Drug-Sniffing Dog During Routine Traffic Stop
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police use of a drug-sniffing dog during a routine traffic stop does not v...
SAN DIEGO - Five residents filed suit against San Diego County on Monday, alleging that they and thousands of other low-income...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. Attorney Debra Yang and Police Chief William Bratton tag-teamed Monday to announce a new task force aimed ...
SAN DIEGO - An insurance company must cover San Diego's costs for outside counsel in a case that led to a $94.5 million jury v...
SAN FRANCISCO - A huge Central Valley irrigation district, concluding its chances of a U.S. Supreme Court review were "extrao...
Judges and Judiciary
Schwarzenegger Names Two Civil Lawyers to San Diego Bench
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday appointed two veteran civil lawyers to the San Diego Superior Court bench. T...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Brooklyn has convicted former San Diego stock trader Amr Elgindy of multiple securities-fraud ...