The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board will decide at its next meeting Thursday whether to appeal a decision by ...
REDWOOD CITY - If people in trouble want San Mateo Superior Court Judge Barbara Mallach to lend them a hand, she's willing - b...
Litigation
U.S. Magistrate in Riverside Joins Rotation of Civil Trials
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - At the first of the year, federal court officials began putting into the regular assignment rotation the name of...
Employment Column - By J. Kevin Lilly - It will surprise no one that California charts its own course in defining an employee'...
Intellectual Property
Identifying Names of Internet Pirates Is Harder After 'Verizon'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Copyright owners recently suffered another setback in their battle again...
Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Illinois v. Lidster, 2004 U.S.LEXIS 656 (U.S. J...
SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court ruled Thursday that voters should have the right to decide the fate of a new law requiring C...
LOS ANGELES - Defendants do not have to provide discovery to prosecutors at hearings held to decide whether their probation sh...
Judges and Judiciary
Senator Urges Congress to Rethink Feeney Amendment
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Challenging a controversial law that limits federal judges' discretion in sentencing and requires reports to Cong...
LOS ANGELES - Services are scheduled for Saturday for Theodore G. Johnsen, a business attorney and adjunct professor at USC La...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a nonprofit agency that provides services to d...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Health officials intentionally withheld information from an adoptive mother that would have warn...
SAN FRANCISCO - Although he never set foot in Marin County, a San Francisco drug dealer was properly tried there because he ma...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors involved in the murder case against actor Robert Blake are disputing that they allowed a book author...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanislaus prosecutors may live to regret their decision to remove Judge Richard Arnason from presiding over t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The consumer bankruptcy bar reacted with outrage Thursday to reports out of Washington that House Republicans ...
LOS ANGELES - Signaling a breakdown in the year-old attempt to settle civil litigation over the Catholic Church sexual abuse s...
WASHINGTON - Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush put his administration at the center of a...
Labor/Employment
Anti-Gay Worker Who Violates Diversity Policy May Be Fired
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Job-bias statutes frequently put employers strivi...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - "The great opportunity of the American bar is and will be to stand ... ready to protect the...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Wednesday revived claims that Disney cheated the author of the book behind "Who Framed Roger Ra...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's former inspector general warned state senators Wednesday that the new governor's appointment of R...
LOS ANGELES - Paul George Bower, a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, died at home Dec....
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors began deliberating Wednesday over whether San Francisco adoption and health officials intentionally dec...
SANTA ANA - Conservative icon Kenneth Starr will teach an advanced constitutional law class at Chapman University in Orange, ...
LOS ANGELES - When Santa Monica family law attorney Ruth L. Estep learned that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John W. Ouderk...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Anthony Pellicano blasted federal prosecutors Wednesday for "desperately and ineffectively" trying...
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents, in the first step toward launching a court challenge, have asked the California Public Utilities Co...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court strongly indicated Wednesday that it will not order trial judges to give pro se defendants cont...
SANTA ANA - Convicted of threatening FBI agents, Erik Erskine thought he was going to spend at most a year in prison. It turns...