Notebook - By John Roemer - SAN FRANCISCO - Dan Hamburg and Wal-Mart seemed destined to clash. Hamburg is a former Democratic ...
LOS ANGELES - Services for attorney and activist Selma Mikels Lofgren will take place today. Lofgren died March 24 on vacation...
SACRAMENTO - An influential state lawmaker is threatening to seek contempt sanctions against at least five major energy compan...
LOS ANGELES - The grand jury indictment returned against Michael Jackson this week normally would have opened a window on the ...
Criminal
Closing Courts, Jails Shouldn't Result in Layoffs, Officials Say
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - No layoffs are expected when officials close three courthouses, in Culver City, Monrovia and South Gate, and shu...
SAN FRANCISCO - After putting San Francisco attorney Raul Aguilar through a grueling two-day contempt hearing this week becaus...
Civil Rights
Panel Revives Harassment Suit By Writers' Aide for 'Friends'
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Three male writers on the television comedy "Friends" treated their assistant, Amaani Lyle, "like one of the guy...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Perseveres to Run Drug Court and Program
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - When 17-year-old Deborah L. Christian attended her first class at UCLA, she was the only student from her Inglew...
WASHINGTON - This weekend's NFL draft will be without two marquee prospects after the Supreme Court on Thursday twice denied a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a groundbreaking federal appellate decision, a San Jose federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Santa Cruz...
Appellate Practice
Courts Shouldn't Put Publishable Data in Unpublished Opinions
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - Given the manner in which the state appellate courts have administered the present regi...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - The subject of dog tracking evidence may become the subject of popular ...
Forum Column - By J. Kevin Lilly - For years, employers have cited the high costs for workers' compensation insurance as a maj...
SANTA CLARA - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's decision to give light sentences to two defendants conv...
SAN FRANCISCO - Negotiators for Attorney General John Ashcroft have agreed the FBI will pay $2 million to settle long-running ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Wednesday threw out a defamation suit filed by fashion retailer Forever 21 against garme...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer who made his mark in the 1990s helping conservative Christians get elected to Southern Cal...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Hertzberg, a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and a former speaker of the Assembly, announced Wedn...
SAN DIEGO - The criminal defense system for those who can't afford lawyers would be dealt a severe blow if the San Diego Count...
WASHINGTON - Dismissing arguments by California environmental and labor groups, the Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated it wi...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris refused a demand from the police union Wednesday to step aside f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers drafting contracts that waive the parties' right to a jury trial in case of a dispute are currently un...
LOS ANGELES - A man who served 24 years in prison for a murder he said he didn't commit has filed civil rights claims against ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge in Santa Ana has ruled that a U.S. citizen accused of trying to bomb the Vietnamese e...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Gifford, a popular Alameda County criminal court judge who recently pleaded no contest in a prostitution ...
SACRAMENTO - Bruce Harrington's brother and sister-in-law, Keith and Patti Harrington, were killed in 1980 by an intruder who ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pelican Bay inmate Frank S. Clement protested in 1999 when guards withheld his pen pal letters because they ca...
Forum Column - By Sue Blake - On Easter Sunday, the FX Network aired a special feature titled, "Redemption: The Stanley 'Tooki...
Forum Column - By Stanley "Tookie" Williams - There are at least two illegitimate reasons for my sitting on San Quentin's deat...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles McCoy has recommended that clergy sexual-abuse lawsuits filed in Northe...