LOS ANGELES - A year ago, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy exhorted the American Bar Association to work to eliminate harsh criminal...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has struck down federal permits that allow extensive cattle grazing and off-road vehicle use on millio...
SANTA ANA - Orange Superior Court Judge Patrick H. Donahue has done a lot in his 55 years. He served in the Marines, spent 15 ...
Criminal
No Intelligence, However Dim, Will Be Disseminated Before It Is Time
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Old intelligence may be better than no intelligence. But by how much? This week's security alert spar...
LOS ANGELES - In 1994, a state appellate court ordered Whitley Heights, an enclave of old Hollywood glamour perched above the ...
Forum Column - By Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker - The idea of an intelligence czar and an infrastructure to support the position ...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Catherine Valerio Barrad - Much has been written on the art of appellate oral argument, and ...
Forum Column - By Adam F. Streisand - On July 24, the executive committee of the State Bar's trusts and estates section, consi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Black, a former managing partner of Perkins Coie's San Francisco office and a corporate rainmaker for the ...
WASHINGTON - As federal judges are beginning to consider the habeas challenges of detainees being held at the Guantnamo Bay Na...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge breathed new life Tuesday into the moribund Winnie the Pooh case. U.S. District Judge Florence-M...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles on Tuesday filed notices that they will seek the death penalty against a trio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America might have never learned that one of its former employees was secretly trying to collect a siz...
SANTA ANA - Law schools can be sued for misleading students about their bar accreditation status, an appeals court ruled Tuesd...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - What do we do with Josiah Z.? The California Supreme Court agreed to take up that question last w...
Judges and Judiciary
Presiding Over Big Trials Doesn't Faze Veteran Judge
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Wherever Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stanley M. Weisberg works, it seems notorious cases follow. In his 18 ...
HAYWARD - The Ford Motor Co. knows that its 15-passenger vans have a tendency to roll over and kill passengers, but it chooses...
LOS ANGELES - Federal jurors Tuesday watched a courtroom video that prosecutors hope will be smoking-gun evidence against Thom...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys in the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles are outraged over the recent arrests of poor a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gay marriage advocate Evan Wolfson grappled early with the topic that would consume his career. When he was 1...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was a perfect Hollywood ending. The lawsuits filed by representatives of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agains...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted Orinda lawyer Gregory S. Lyons and his client on a charge of bankruptcy fra...
International
Suit by Ousted Tribe Members Can Proceed in Federal Court
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FRESNO - A federal court has taken up the case of two members of a gaming tribe of Fresno-area Indians who say their ouster c...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that experts on "battered women's syndrome" may testify in cases ev...
LOS ANGELES - Monday was a rough day for William Cottrell, the former Caltech graduate student accused of firebombing sport u...
SAN DIEGO - In a widely watched contest over who can lay claim to a sheltered La Jolla cove, frolicking seals so far are winn...
Administrative/Regulatory
Budget Is Enough to Keep State Trial Courts Open
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The trial courts aren't exactly crowing about their $2.31 billion budget approved last week, but their administra...
It was a dark and stormy night. Well, no. It wasn't. But the warm summer weather fails to explain why The Scene had twice driv...
"Make a difference in your community. Go out and vote." Each November, it's a popular slogan in neighborhoods across America. ...
O'Melveny & Myers put together an $18.4 million financing deal for investors in PolyFuel Inc., an innovator of direct meth...