SAN FRANCISCO - Chancellor and Dean Mary Kay Kane will end her long tenure at Hastings College of the Law following the 2006 ...
SAN JOSE - A state appellate court wants to hear more before deciding whether Apple Computer can subpoena records kept by the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Members of a white family subjected to racial harassment by black people in their native South Africa have ag...
LOS ANGELES - Hoping to avoid the ethical clouds that enveloped his predecessor, Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa has decided ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted the former head of Fleishman-Hillard's Los Angeles office for allegedly conspi...
INDUSTRIAL OAKLAND - Eagle Holdings LLC purchased a 42,000-square-foot industrial building at 101-151 Hegenberger Road from PC...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Robert W. Wood - Ever since 1996, when Congress amended Section 104 of the Internal Revenue Code t...
Forum Column - By Sean B. Hecht - While citizens have had the power for decades to enforce our most important federal environm...
Corporate
Arthur Anderson: How Altering Jury Instructions Can Come Back to Haunt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ray Jurado - Much will be written about the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Arthur Anderson L...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Los Angeles trial attorney James G. Butler, a former Compton city attorney, will take pla...
SANTA MARIA - Though the jury has yet to decide Michael Jackson's fate, court watchers have served up their verdict on the du...
SAN DIEGO - Brash talk show host Tom Leykis did nothing illegal when he labeled a caller "way too old" for his radio show and...
LOS ANGELES - State Supreme Court justices appeared Tuesday to side with a lawyer for a convicted murderer who argued that hi...
SAN DIEGO - Activists ordered to stay away from an employee of an animal-testing company won a partial victory when an appell...
LOS ANGELES - What should have been the businesslike restructuring of one of Los Angeles County's premier child advocacy firms...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kelly fantasized during a college year in France of returning one ...
Judges and Judiciary
His Censure Official, Danser Fights for Bar Card
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser was formally censured Thursday for fixing traffic ti...
Judges and Judiciary
Brown Uses Nature Metaphors In Dissent to Drug Case Ruling
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown used colorful law of the jungle metaphors in dissenting Thursday to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities litigators were waiting to see Thursday whether President Bush's nomination of California Congress...
Administrative/Regulatory
Seattle Protest Case Sent Back to Trial Court
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury will decide whether the city of Seattle violated the Constitution when it banned protesters from an ar...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed a notice of appeal of a San Francisco's judge's ruling that the state's ...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors may be identified only by numbers, extra U.S. marshals will monitor proceedings and a metal detector may ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
'Taking' Can't Occur Merely By Enactment of Legislation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Stuart Miller - The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment provides, "nor shall private proper...
Corporate
With 'Lingle,' Supreme Court Finally Lets 'Lochner' Rest in Peace
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Daniel L. Siegel - Takings law, once described by Justice Anthony Kennedy as "among the most litigated and p...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for Eugene B. Dickinson, a San Gabriel Valley criminal and personal-injury attor...
LOS ANGELES - Graveside services are scheduled for 11 a.m. today for civil attorney Steve Mazin, who was gunned down Monday at...
LOS ANGELES - In a case of apparent first impression, a Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that state school districts must ...
SAN DIEGO - Timothy R. Walsh, who gained the spotlight for his successful prosecution in a widely publicized drug and serial-r...
INDIO - Ten school districts with mostly Spanish-speaking students sued the state Wednesday, claiming they are taking a beatin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate and securities attorney Jonathan Lemberg has joined Farella Braun & Martel's business transacti...