SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of having oral sex with a minor shouldn't have to register as a sex offender because people co...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of William G. Myers III for the 9th U.S. Circu...
Large Firms
Federal Prosecutor Returns to Munger Tolles After Eight Years
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Gregory Weingart will rejoin Munger, Tolles & Olson after serving as chief of the major fraud section at the...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Even Temper Helps Keep Court Under Control
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - When Terry L. Smerling joined the Legal Aid Foundation of Long Beach in 1970 as a recent Columbia Law School gra...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit against the U.S. government Thursday, asking a court to r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who sued Microsoft under California antitrust laws cribbed heavily from volumes of antitrust litigatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Nigerian woman won the right Thursday to renew her asylum claim that she suffers continuing persecution as a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A genetic roll of the dice may give a gambler good eyes, but the government cannot cite that physical attribut...
Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - Since 1996, the list of crimes constituting aggravated felonies has incr...
Focus Column - Law Practice - By Jon Pfeiffer - What is the primary purpose of a motion picture? The answer differs depending ...
Forum Column - By Joseph Love - A few days ago, I learned about a bill recently introduced in Congress. Although several years...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ordered an insurance company to pay pretrial interest on a breach-of-contract jury award, ef...
SAN DIEGO - Saying that no conflict with state law exists, an appellate court has upheld the validity of a San Diego ordinance...
SAN JOSE - Citing a recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, a federal judge said Wednesday he would probably revers...
Litigation
Native American Inmate Sues Over Hair Policy
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The American Civil Liberties Union and a Los Angeles law firm filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a Native Amer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two dissident California utility regulators, claiming key elements of the blueprint to reorganize bankrupt Pac...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has struck down a lawsuit brought by a Korean-American seeking reparations for slaving in ...
Notebook - By Robert Selna - Lawyers for the Berkeley NAACP and for the parents of several schoolchildren are seeking to inter...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge in Fullerton Sniper Case Made Bold Insanity Ruling
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - Robert Kneeland, an Orange County judge best known for finding the 1970s-era Fullerton sniper not guilty by reason...
Entertainment & Sports
Trademark This! 'You're Fired' Bites Back at Television Star Trump
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Goofy with hubris, tycoon Donald J. Trump wants to trademark the words "You're fired!" This doom-lade...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has given a disgruntled client a second chance to prove misconduct by a prominent San ...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles on Wednesday announced the arrest of 15 Southern California residents ...
LOS ANGELES - You really can't fight City Hall, as David A. Levy discovered Tuesday. That's when the state Supreme Court refus...
Government
Reports in Media of Condoleezza Rice's Political Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - When former Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke publicly swore before a nat...
Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By William L. Buus - You've got a case where a buyer of real property is suing the seller for...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Federal Abortion Ban Is a Broad Attack on Women's Health
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Louise Melling and Lorraine Kenny - On behalf of the National Abortion Federation and several individual phy...
SAN DIEGO - Appellate court justices Tuesday reversed their 2002 ruling and affirmed that employers can be sued under the stat...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked an order that would have sent three-strikes defendant Pamela ...
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers seemed close to persuading the Assembly Judiciary Committee to vote to ban mandatory arbitration cl...
WASHINGTON - Hearing the case of a black defendant convicted of murder by an all-white jury, the Supreme Court justices indica...