Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By James D. Nguyen and Michael B. Moore - Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to terminate a bo...
LOS ANGELES - Peter Rosen, a lead attorney in the federal-court battle between World Trade Center leaseholders and insurance c...
A state appellate court Thursday struck down a 2002 San Diego ballot initiative that required a two-thirds vote for any new ta...
A nonbiological mother can claim to be the parent of a child in a same-sex marriage if the woman is viewed as the "presumed fa...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Who Filed Controversial Lawsuit Seeks Disability Retirement
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Walter L. Blackwell III, the San Bernardino County judge who drew fire for a vitriolic lawsuit he filed ear...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors and Los Angeles police officials are investigating officers involved in the June 19 flashlight beati...
LOS ANGELES - In a rare ruling that defies both controlling case law and state statutes, an appellate court has reversed a def...
SAN FRANCISCO - The victim of an accidental shooting hopes the state attorney general's opposition to the sale of a gun compan...
SACRAMENTO - Bankers who lost a legal challenge to California's landmark consumer-privacy law say they will appeal a federal j...
Criminal
Melons or Rocks? Bakewell's Fruit Frenzy Won't Make Political Pie of Flashlight Furor
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Here's a suggestion for the latest furor surrounding the Los Angeles Police Department. Everybody in ...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento federal Judge Morrison England has been on the bench less than two years. But he already has a promine...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for two men accused of assault in the "Fajitagate" case that initially involved low-level cops and e...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Anaheim police officer who claims he was hounded out of his job for reporting misconduct by other officers ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a kidnapping charge was appropriate for a defendant who trick...
SAN FRANCISCO - A North Carolina energy company has agreed to pay San Francisco Unified School District $43.1 million to settl...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time in its 83-year history, the San Francisco public defender's office will begin charging clie...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Cassandra S. Franklin - It's a familiar scenario. Discovery has begun in your case and the othe...
Forum Column - By Thomas R. Owens - For some of us, the videotaped beating of Stanley Miller by uniformed officers of the Los ...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey Eglash - The videotaped beating of Stanley Miller by a Los Angeles Police Department officer poses t...
Forum Column - By Anthony Lewis - "A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the na...
LOS ANGELES - The Orange County court employees' union cannot bypass the court in an effort to get travel records for judges a...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco judges will increase bail today for a variety of crimes ranging from the sale of marijuana to po...
SAN DIEGO - John J. Ambrose Jr. worked as a Los Angeles County prosecutor, a sole practitioner in Palos Verdes and a San Diego...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the San Francisco-based federal appeals court to consider whether a petiti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Would you buy a used car from Arnold Schwarzenegger? Akron, Ohio, auto dealer Fred Martin thought so and used ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge John Kraetzer likely knows no one would give him an award for moving trials along...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew Henderson - Punitive damages make up a notoriously contentious field of law. As in the ...
Forum Column - By Abdul Aziz Said - It is important that the mistakes of the past, which brought the authoritarian regime of S...
LOS ANGELES - Allstate Insurance agreed Tuesday to issue life coverage to people who have visited Israel, and six other carrie...