LOS ANGELES - A group of parents has dropped a lawsuit challenging a school tolerance program that they said violated their ri...
Law Practice
Patrons Deplore Effects of Cuts In County Law Library's Budget
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When paralegal Grahame MacCallum's online legal research comes up empty, he heads downtown to the Los Angeles Co...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Finds Tough Love Succeeds in Drug Court
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The woman rushed into the Downey courtroom, full of explanations about why she showed up late for a hearing abou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, a central figure in San Francisco's notorious dog-mauling case, entered into a plea ...
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, under pressure to make changes to the state's unfair competition law to discourage abuses of it, a...
Corporate
Firms Must Tailor Company-Specific Privacy Policies, Not 'Cut and Paste'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Tracy Silver - Companies must take as seriously as any other large endeavor the decision to c...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In Lawrence v. Texas , 123 S.Ct. 2472 (2003), the U.S. Supreme Court abrogated the...
LOS ANGELES - The first time Percy Anderson applied for a federal judgeship, President George H.W. Bush phoned in person to no...
Focus Column - Real Property - By Katherine Oberle and Dana Roach - Two recent cases illustrate for attorneys representing len...
Judges and Judiciary
On-Call Commissioner Works Jail Instead of Court
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Commissioner Jessica Frischling never goes to court. She never sees attorneys. But she may be th...
WASHINGTON - Three California judicial nominees sailed through a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday and likely will ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Bill Limits Homeowner Associations' Bans on Banners
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Residents in homeowner associations will be assured of their free-speech right to display signs, banners and flag...
Personal Injury & Torts
Panel Finds Taco Shop Not Liable for Stabbing
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego taco shop owner is not liable for failing to prevent an attempted murder but might have to pay becau...
Government
Politicians Talk Trash on Graffiti-Splotched Banks of L.A. River
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles politicians pledged Wednesday to make the Los Angeles River suitable for Huckleberry Finn...
Labor/Employment
Justices Show Inclination in Disability, Harassment Cases
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court sounded wary Wednesday of holding employers liable for sexual harassment under th...
SAN FRANCISCO - To its admirers, Menlo Park's Venture Law Group revolutionized the practice of corporate law in Silicon Valley...
Forum Column - By Miles Christian Daniels - Gay and lesbian people have had reason to rejoice since the decision in Lawrenc...
Forum Column - By Miranda D. Junowicz - Public condemnation of the statements of individual judges or justices ought to be rar...
SACRAMENTO - The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday to clarify that employers may be held liable for sexual harassment of th...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday removed two more obstacles to California's recall election when it appr...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan said Tuesday his decision to support a defense motion to free accused kille...
REDWOOD CITY - After some 27 years on the job, San Mateo Superior Court Commissioner Joseph Gruber was bound to generate some ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State logging rules that environmentalists had attacked as allowing drastic reductions in protections for rive...
Intellectual Property
Circuit Panel: State's Courts Can Judge in Internet Case
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - In its first ruling on Internet jurisdiction, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday that Californ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday removed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco from presiding over...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Feels Lucky To Be Dedicated to His Job
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Mitchell L. Beckloff says he thinks of his good fortune almost every mor...
LOS ANGELES - Juan Manrique is pinning his hopes on a dream - literally. The son of a murdered political dissident from Guatem...
SACRAMENTO - Don't tell Fremont divorce lawyer Bob Lynn Edwards Jr. he's got no chance of winning the Oct. 7 recall election t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group, the high-flying darling of Silicon Valley's dot-com boom, will merge with San Francisco's H...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday reversed 100 death sentences in Arizona, Idaho and Montana. In an 8-3 dec...