WASHINGTON - Documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force will remain private for now, thanks to a Supr...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges to Get New Power in Disciplinary Proceedings
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In a compromise intended to ward off legislation to force its hand, the state Commission on Judicial Performan...
Forum Column - By Dennis W. Archer - In a recent interview, Harvard Business School professor and author Rakesh Khurana expres...
Tax
Attorneys Must Stop Peddling Highly Questionable Tax-Avoidance Products
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeff Lowe - Offshore tax havens, spread by new computing and telecommunications systems, provide an unpreced...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Niborski - So your client took it on himself to play private detective and tape-reco...
Entertainment & Sports
Moore's Take on Bush and Iraq Is Biased, But It's Also Engaging
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen D. Zager - Let's be as clear as possible: Michael Moore wants George W. Bush out of office. His agen...
SAN JOSE - Dozens of IBM Corp. workers and retirees who alleged that exposure to toxic chemicals caused them to develop cancer...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's trial judges have unanimously elected Robert Dondero to serve as the next presiding judge of t...
LOS ANGELES - Raymond G. Fortner, the interim Los Angeles county counsel and a leading contender for the permanent job, could ...
LOS ANGELES - The family of an inmate killed inside the Men's Central Jail has sued Los Angeles County and Sheriff Lee Baca fo...
Native Americans
Supreme Court to Weigh State's Authority to Sue Tribes
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will decide whether Indian tribes' sovereignty protects them from lawsuits filed ...
LOS ANGELES - A dozen city, law enforcement and community leaders vowed Wednesday to get to the bottom of the videotaped polic...
LOS ANGELES - Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a civil fraud complaint filed by the...
Entertainment & Sports
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch, Your Exhibits Stink, You Ignored Local Rules
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A team from Los Angeles finally has outscored Detroit, possibly easing the pain of the Los Angeles La...
Two Bush administration lawyers who had a hand in once-secret memoranda that attempted to justify the torture of enemy combata...
WASHINGTON - An American Bar Association commission called on the nation to rethink its get-tough-on-crime policies in a repor...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco ordinance designed to limit tenancies in common violates the California Constitution's privacy...
HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Delbert Gee is a champion of increasing the number of Asian-American judges in C...
LOS ANGELES - A Sherman Oaks man filed suit Tuesday to stop nursing homes from passing the costs of elder-abuse malpractice in...
HAYWARD - Three East Bay men accused of killing transgender teenager Gwen Araujo will be tried once again for first-degree mur...
Labor/Employment
Nonsolicitation Covenants Can Succeed When Drawn Narrowly
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By William J. Emanuel and Elaine T. Byszewski - As virtually all transactional and employment ...
Forum Column - By Eva Paterson - Today marks the one-year anniversary of Grutter v. Bollinger, in which the Supreme Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Spanish-language interpreters staged a sick-out Tuesday in Yolo County over proposed changes to their labor co...
LOS ANGELES - After threatening last week to close five branches, the Los Angeles County Law Library board of trustees granted...
SAN FRANCISCO - A successful defendant in a consumer case must show that a plaintiff acted in bad faith in order to recover it...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury has hit San Francisco and Laguna Honda Hospital with a $4.3 million verdict, finding the hospit...
LONG BEACH - A jury Tuesday began deliberating first-degree murder charges against Stephen Otto Reitz, who claims he was sleep...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal reinstated a malpractice lawsuit Tuesday against a San Francisco law firm - d...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - Remember that classic scene from a black-and-white World War II movie in which Gestapo officers i...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Tuesday found enough evidence to hold a Lancaster couple on capital murder charges in the be...