SANTA ANA - A woman who killed her husband after she caught him having oral sex with a 16-year-old will get a new trial, an ap...
LOS ANGELES - A man allegedly beaten by a Los Angeles bus driver can proceed with a civil damages claim, a state appellate cou...
SAN JOSE - A senior associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was charged Thursday with one count of statutory rape...
SAN FRANCISCO - An immigration judge's "extraordinary" action in effectively banning an entire law firm from representing a c...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Rebukes Judge For Displaying Bias in Dispute
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished Superior Court Judge Brett C. Klein of Los Angeles on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The ACLU filed suit against the FBI Thursday, demanding it release documents related to the ongoing investiga...
Entertainment & Sports
Tribunal Lets U.S. Olympic Gymnast Keep Gold Medal
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Declaring that athletic scoring controversies don't belong in the courtroom, a Swiss-based Olympic sports tribun...
Government
A Strong Proponent of Unfair Competition Law Reform Opposes Proposition 64
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A San Diego law professor has been proposing reforms of the state's unfair competition law for years. He is the a...
SACRAMENTO - Big corporations and small businesses have raised a lot of money this year to persuade voters to approve a ballot...
Appellate Practice
Malpractice Suit Tanks as Panel Spanks The Plaintiff
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel delivered more bad news Wednesday to a disgruntled patent holder in its long-runnin...
LOS ANGELES - Responding to an explosion of financially strapped Californians representing themselves in court, the Los Angele...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutions of aliens who re-entered the country illegally nearly tripled in Los Angeles in the past y...
Labor/Employment
Opposing Class Certification Requires Careful Preparation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld Since the decision in Bell v. Farmers Insurance Exchange , 87 Cal.App....
SACRAMENTO - California's insurance commissioner, saying he's been investigating kickbacks in the insurance industry for mont...
Criminal
Supreme Court Has Painted Itself Into Corner Over Capital Punishment
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert Weisberg - Last week, the Supreme Court heard argument in Roper v. Simmons about whether sentencing a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Animals can't sue on their own behalf in environmental cases, including those invoking the Endangered Species...
A federal judge in Los Angeles has thrown out evidence in the criminal case against Ventura pharmacist Richard Ozar, who is c...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court waded Wednesday into a long-running legal feud between nationally prominent tria...
Criminal
Betting on Prime Time: Forget World Series; Wait for LAPD Reality Show
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - If you have an office betting pool, you might want to drop the World Series action and start a line...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Wednesday his office has obtained a $1.8 million default judgment against...
SACRAMENTO - As one of the state's most understaffed benches, having endured several years of shrinking budgets, the Sacramen...
LOS ANGELES - A judge threw out a $2 million award Wednesday against E! Entertainment Television because the arbitrator in the...
Administrative/Regulatory
Tribes Claim Immunity in Campaign Finance Case
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A state appellate panel Tuesday closely questioned a tribal lawyer who argued that California's political watchd...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Belatedly Discovers the Truth: Judges and Lawyers Are Archenemies
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - My high-school English teacher had a difficult time coaxing his know-it-all seniors into under...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Stephan A. Mills - Several recent decisions signal a willingness by the appellate courts to ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Financial Elder-Abuse Law Harms Victims It Should Protect
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - Political autocrats, Leo Tolstoy observed, invariably comfort themselves on grounds th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man's home may be his castle, but that doesn't give him a right to destroy the property he shares with his ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that her office will begin a joint effort wit...
SACRAMENTO - In the wake of troubling stories of shoplifters doing 25 years to life, both liberals and conservatives in large ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors could use evidence seized from Robert Blake's house, even tho...