Administrative/Regulatory
Court Must Stop Coastal Commission's 'Extortion' Attempts
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Extortion. It's an ugly word. But then, it's an ugly concept. It's even uglier when enga...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Daniel W. Park - In July, the California 2nd District Court of Appeal in S.B. Beach Properti...
Government
School Districts Must Cooperate With Charter Schools or Risk Intervention
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Forum Column - By Gregory V. Moser - The Los Angeles Unified School District has broken the promise made to the voters when Pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - While defense attorneys accuse prosecutors of improperly using race in jury selection, they acknowledge an ope...
Personal Injury & Torts
County Wins $6 Million Damages in Bribery Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VENTURA - A judge tentatively decided Thursday to award San Bernardino County $6 million in damages from officials and busines...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County jailers let a murder suspect who tried to escape from custody do inmate head counts, check id...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday found it fundamentally unfair for a prosecutor to compel a defendant to call ...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has rejected a request by ChevronTexaco Corp. to ask the federal government ...
SAN FRANCISCO - After a rocky start with police over the killing of a cop, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has m...
SAN FRANCISCO - John M. Forney, one of the key players in Enron Corp.'s manipulation of the California energy crisis, pleaded ...
Constitutional Law
Wireless-Privacy Lawsuit Raises Novel Issues
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Ontario Police Sgt. Jeff Quon thought he was having private conversations with other officers and family members w...
SAN DIEGO - Citing new evidence, the district attorney said Thursday she will seek a new trial for a San Diego man imprisoned ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Alameda County prosecutor Ted Landswick wanted to nail 20-year-old Robert Young for three drug-related...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court uncorked a jeroboam-size opinion Thursday protecting Napa Valley wines from vino with ...
SANTA ANA - An Irvine law firm is filing suits alleging nonexistent or minor violations of federal handicap-access laws in an ...
IRVINE - The only West Coast member of the Sept. 11 commission criticized President Bush's response to the committee's report ...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael Paul Thomas - Trial judges face opposing responsibilities when lawyers seek continuance...
Forum Column - By Michael P. Stone - Again, a videotaped Los Angeles Police Department "beating" is the topic of community out...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - When I graduated from Hastings College of the Law in 1983, our keynote speaker was comed...
LOS ANGELES - Private services are planned for Deputy City Attorney David Manella, a fixture at the Hollywood courthouse. Mane...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Okinawa dugong may be many things to many people - cultural icon, lumbering undersea beast, relative of th...
REDWOOD CITY - At the Scott Peterson double-murder trial, the conventional wisdom is that the prosecution is blowing it. That'...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal has reinstated a fraud lawsuit against Jones Day law firm for hiding a "toxic" ...
SAN FRANCISCO - None of the federal judges in San Francisco's Northern District wanted the case of the former Silicon Valley e...
SACRAMENTO - A legal war is being fought in California that involves billions of dollars, a venerable Supreme Court doctrine, ...
LOS ANGELES - A man freed from jail by an episode of the cable television comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm" has filed a federal ci...
SAN DIEGO - Using a sting operation, authorities in San Diego and from the state Public Utilities Commission snared seven limo...
LOS ANGELES - Hours after Mary Kay Letourneau left a Washington prison Wednesday where she served seven years for raping her s...
SACRAMENTO - Buried deep within a sweeping proposal to revamp California's government bureaucracy this week is a recommendatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first jury to assess any of the many excessive-force allegations leveled against Alex Fagan Jr. handed the...