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...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday that her office will begin a joint effort w...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who demonstrates for animal rights at San Francisco's Cow Palace when the circus or the rodeo is perfor...
SAN FRANCISCO - A clash between federal judges and the U.S. State Department over extraditing fugitives to countries where th...
Litigation
Supervisors Refuse to Cover Up Controversial Roosevelt Quote
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A controversial quotation by Theodore Roosevelt in a Riverside courtroom is going to stay put - for now. Further f...
Judges and Judiciary
Some Find Efficient Judge Strict, But Others Say Rigid
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - High noon. Two men, each 5-foot-10, squared off outside the Central Courthouse for a game of one-on-one. The oppon...
BAKERSFIELD - Hundreds of laid-off farmworkers will receive a total of $1 million under the settlement of a class action that ...
LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by a labor dispute, hundreds of Los Angeles County Superior Court clerks on Tuesday failed to show up...
SAN FRANCISCO - An immigration judge wrongly deported an American citizen to Mexico, a divided federal appellate panel held M...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman Since 1994, the courts of California have rendered opinions that have greatl...
Administrative/Regulatory
Stem-Cell Initiative Offers State's Voters Ray of Hope, Optimism
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Frustration with the Bush administration's shortsighted and improvident restrictions on em...
Forum Column - By John D. O'Connor - The loudly trumpeted conclusion of the 9/11 Commission Report that there was no "collabor...
Government
U.S. Administration Rides Roughshod Over Global Test for Pre-emptive War
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Carlos Castresana - President Bush is not truthful when he asserts that the global test that Democratic pres...
REDWOOD CITY - Judge John G. Schwartz views himself as pretty conservative, a tough sentencer and, all in all, a fairly typica...