LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge John M. Watson Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against rolling wildca...
WASHINGTON - Taking another plunge into the world of online pornography, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review the con...
SAN DIEGO - A parish priest who later became a vice president at the University of San Diego raped a 14-year-old girl at a Cat...
OAKLAND - The family of a young Oakland man who was shot to death in his bed earlier this month by two police officers filed a...
LOS ANGELES - In what observers call a novel application of a new state law, the union for striking Southern California grocer...
LOS ANGELES - A disbarred Los Angeles attorney and confidante to a South Gate official accused of corruption was sentenced to ...
Judges and Judiciary
Former FBI Agent Stopped Bank Heist During Shootout
By Sarah Garveyn
VENTURA - With a background that includes working as an FBI special agent and district attorney, it's no surprise that Ventura...
CHATSWORTH - A Chatsworth jury slammed the Ford Motor Co. and a trucking company with a $45 million verdict Tuesday in a case ...
Appellate Practice
Doctors Can Recommend Marijuana to Sick Patients
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Any doctor in the U.S., not just California doctors, may recommend marijuana to their patients without fear of...
SAN JOSE - The first cases in a mammoth wave of litigation by high-tech workers against International Business Machines Inc., ...
Appellate Practice
Justices Will Decide Whether 'Under God' Pushes Religion
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Jumping into the emotionally charged controversy swirling around the Pledge of Allegiance, the Supreme Court on T...
LOS ANGELES - Strikers offering their message to Southern California grocery shoppers in the three-day-old labor dispute were ...
LOS ANGELES - When the hiring partners at Munger, Tolles & Olson are about to toss the resume of a law-school grad with le...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The rights of creditors can conflict with the rights o...
Forum Column - By M. V. Lee Badgett and R. Bradley Sears - Pete Knight is at it again. The California state senator, R-Palmdal...
LOS ANGELES - Paul Leo Freese Sr., retired head of the litigation department at Los Angeles' Kindel & Anderson and a key l...
SACRAMENTO - The last measure in a package of four bills giving residents in common interest developments, such as condominium...
LOS ANGELES - Services took place Monday in Culver City for well-known commercial trial attorney Peter Aronson, who died early...
LOS ANGELES - Californians of Mexican ancestry, forcibly expelled during the Depression of the l930s, will continue to press t...
SAN FRANCISCO - It seems this city's '60s rock 'n' roll scene remains a relic at least in the courts. The 1st District Court o...
SAN FRANCISCO - A cloud hangs over out-of-state lawyers every time they consult with clients in California: they could be brea...
SAN FRANCISCO - A bill in Congress that would preempt state Proposition 65 warnings about dangerous chemicals in foods ranging...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed two controversial employment law bills that would have made it easier for workers to s...
Judges and Judiciary
Apologetic Attorney Wins Free Three-Day Time Share at the County Jail
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Barring intervention by an appellate court, sole practitioner Frances L. Diaz will spend what will no...
While residents of California were successful in recalling Gov. Gray Davis over economic issues ranging from the energy crisis...
A rousing concert broke out during a formal dinner recently when the Beverly Hills Bar Association honored Jay L. Cooper as it...
If you were lucky enough to receive an invitation to this year's Masters Forum, held at Pepperdine University School of Law, y...
For at least one night, the young lawyers who make up the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Barristers let the old folks re...
Being at a firm that's looking ahead rather than back is fun, says Peter Heinecke, who recently joined Kirkpatrick & Lockh...
After performing a liver transplant procedure, the surgical staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center failed to remove a towel from...