Tyler Chase Harper wore a T-shirt to his San Diego-area school that read, "Homosexuality is shameful." The 16-year-old Christi...
Los Angeles-based health law firm Hooper, Lundy & Bookman opened its first office in San Diego on June 7 with Cary Miller,...
More allegations of sexual harassment and spying have surfaced against HootWinc, the franchisee of 17 Hooters restaurants oper...
Focus Column - Consumer Law - By Jan T. Chilton and William L. Stern - Fifteen years ago, a junior high school teacher named D...
Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The Memorial Day weekend papers said it all: Iraqis finally being released after mont...
Constitutional Law
Audio, Video Recordings Don't Show All of Contact Between Suspect, Police
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - A study released this week by the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Univers...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Parents comes in all shapes and sizes. There are those who are dedicated to the welfare of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA isn't responsible for burns a worker suffered when a steam pipe burst at a Richmond laboratory bec...
LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino Superior Court judge Friday denied an attorney's attempt to seek punitive damages in a Ford rol...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Santa Ana awarded $29 million in punitive damages Friday to a German film and television distr...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - It's the simplest, easiest concept: Help the poor and the lost - love thy neighbor. But the exec...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco ordinance that requires landlords to pay tenants 5 percent interest on their security deposits...
LOS ANGELES - A victims' advocacy group has launched a letter-writing campaign to push for public release of Roman Catholic ch...
Judges and Judiciary
Ideological Opposites Spar Over a Judge's Proper Role
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - That was some spat last week between the two polar opposites on the 9th U.S. Circ...
Criminal
Appellate Panel Permits Jailing Of Homeless Alcoholic Veteran
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - A divided state appeals court has held that it is not cruel and unusual punishment to jail a homeless Vietnam ve...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, the federal agency charged with protecting employees from workp...
LONG BEACH - Stephen Otto Reitz beat and stabbed his married girlfriend to death during a secret weekend getaway to a Catalina...
SANTA ANA - A man charged with felony assault for spitting on a judge saw those charges dropped Friday. David Will Chey of Irv...
LOS ANGELES - What the heck is the jury doing? That's the essence of motions filed in federal court in recent weeks by attorne...
WASHINGTON - A proposal designed to give the military's top uniformed lawyers independence from the politically appointed gene...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was cases like this that brought Rose Bird down. Death row inmate Duane Holloway's appellate journey traver...
Focus Column - Healthcare - By Kristie M. Mackey - In California, the mentally ill may be held for treatment for a limited per...
WASHINGTON - A controversial proposal to allow the citation of so-called "unpublished" opinions in all federal courts was put ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Roger T. Benitez for a District Court judgeship for the San Diego-based Sou...
LOS ANGELES - Immigrants' rights lawyers said Thursday newly proposed modifications to the USA Patriot Act would restore civil...
FRESNO - If you find yourself in Reedley, appearing in the town's only courtroom, don't say you weren't warned. Signs on the d...
SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach attorney was charged Thursday with 24 felony counts of stealing $641,000 from three clients and...
WASHINGTON - Reports estimate one private contractor for every 10 members of the military in Iraq, a contractor-to-soldier rat...
LOS ANGELES - After transferring from the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide unit to the sexual-assault team and discove...
SAN FRANCISCO - One bitter and prominent remnant of Gov. Ronald Reagan's legacy, some critics say, is California's homeless pr...