SAN JOSE - The defense attorney for a man accused of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl is trying to win an acquittal for...
Entertainment & Sports
High Stakes Require Regulation of Magazines Ranking Colleges
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Most Americans younger than 50 have not heard about the payola scandals in the recording...
Labor/Employment
'Sue Your Boss Law' Prevents Actions Against Nonemployers
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Moe Keshavarzi - On Oct. 12, 2003, Gov. Gray Davis signed SB796 into law and created a new ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal has granted a rehearing in a case where it threw out a convicted batterer's s...
Constitutional Law
Judge OKs Political Asylum for Man Held on Secret Evidence
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge has approved political asylum for a Sri Lankan held for three years in a San Diego prison o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Disabled people who are mistreated in group homes can sue their caretakers, but the California Supreme Court d...
SAN FRANCISCO - Humboldt County law enforcement officers used pepper spray to punish anti-logging protesters in a series of in...
LOS ANGELES - Movie studios could face a flood of new claims from spurned screenwriters after a federal appellate ruling that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The golden rules in Judge James Roeder's courtroom are: Show up on time, know your case and don't play games. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Who Upheld Domestic-Partners Law Targeted
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - An anti-gay marriage group said Thursday it would try to recall a Sacramento judge who earlier this week upheld C...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ordered federal energy regulators Thursday to reconsider California's request for $2.8...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was once unheard of for the government to try and win money from those who sue it. But environmental lawyer...
LOS ANGELES - An order to Cardinal Roger Mahony to turn over confidential files to Los Angeles prosecutors investigating clerg...
SAN FRANCISCO - After being intensely recruited by top law firms across the country, Leslie Caldwell has left the U.S. Departm...
Despite challenges, Iraq's nascent democratization process is still showing signs of life. Two recent developments, the Najaf ...
Civil Rights
'Elvig,' 'Werft' Clarify Liability In Ministerial-Exception Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Not all employers are treated equally in cases of workplace miscond...
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - Tomorrow, the Regulation, Discipline And Admissions Committee of the Board of Governors...
Appellate Practice
Home Buyers Should Not Have to Forgo Rights in Bad Housing Market
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Terri R. Brown - The 2nd District Court of Appeal's recent holding in Hicks v. Superior Court (Kaufma...
SAN DIEGO - Richard R. Tuite, convicted in May of stabbing death of a 12-year-old Escondido girl, pleaded guilty Wednesday to ...
SACRAMENTO - Bion Gregory, who retired in 2001 as the longest serving legislative counsel in California's history, has died. H...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County has settled one of its long-running contract disputes with prosecutors and deputy public defende...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have secured two more convictions arising from the alleged corporate fraud at...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States, Bay Area disability rights attorneys sued Unum Life Ins...
Column By Garry Abrams - The hard-eyed state Board of Prison Terms on Tuesday chopped a year off the sentence of Sara Jane Ols...
Appellate Practice
Justices Differ on Awarding Fees for 'Catalyst Cases'
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed divided Wednesday over how to compensate attorneys who bring public intere...
LOS ANGELES - The nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese on Wednesday lost its two-year battle to prevent discovery of fi...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit to Reconsider Anti-Terrorism Decision
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A ruling striking down key provisions of a 1996 anti-terrorism law will be reconsidered by an 11-judge panel o...
LOS ANGELES - A city attorney's office is not considered a "law firm" within the meaning of the vicarious disqualification rul...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday ordered court Commissioner Donna Groman to drop a ballot claim that she works as a full-time jud...
Appellate Practice
High Court to Weigh Juror's Secrets in Murder Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The foreman of the jury that sent Rodney Jesse San Nicolas to death row for a grisly 1990 double murder once h...