LOS ANGELES - A veteran Los Angeles police officer alleges in a suit filed Thursday that his department's internal affairs uni...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday reinstated the claims of "extremely obscene" sexual harassment by two women w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups have the right to challenge national forestry regulations, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
SAN DIEGO - A federal grand jury has indicted three San Diego city councilmen for allegedly agreeing to accept payments from s...
WASHINGTON - One of the last remaining challenges to the Oct. 7 recall election will be back in the spotlight today. A three-j...
WASHINGTON - Judges are susceptible to peer pressure just like the rest of us. So says a new study that examines the voting be...
SAN JOSE - In a victory for the federal government in its continuing battle to enforce laws against medical marijuana, a feder...
Criminal
Jury Clears Santa Barbara Judge of Domestic-Dispute Gun Charge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - A jury Thursday found Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall not guilty of threatening her former live-in girlfrie...
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly approved late amendments Thursday to a bill to protect small businesses seeking reforms to the...
Personal Injury & Torts
Injured Diver Gets a Trial, But Coaches Get the Win
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that coaches can be held liable for student athletes' injuries onl...
LOS ANGELES - A little more than a year ago, Judge Amy Hogue left a successful law practice at San Francisco's Pillsbury Winth...
SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly three years of collecting information, conducting public meetings and consulting with experts and...
SAN FRANCISCO - As Venture Law Group nears a decision about which firm to merge with - a decision that may be announced as ear...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors might have a hard time believing that the wife of real estate magnate and Los Angeles Clippers owner Dona...
Forum Column - By Daniel B. Markind - Barbara Perry's article, "Israel Ignores Rights to Water in Occupied Palestinian Areas" ...
Labor/Employment
9th Circuit Puts Its Own Spin On 'Armendariz' in New Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard H. Rahm - Three years ago, the state Supreme Court, in Armendariz v. Foundation ...
RIVERSIDE - Amy Prien's mother testified Wednesday that her daughter never received prenatal care while she was pregnant with ...
SANTA BARBARA - Jurors concluded their first full day of deliberations without reaching a verdict Wednesday in the trial of Su...
SACRAMENTO - San Joaquin County Judge Thomas Harrington describes himself as a "fresh air nut" who likes to keep a window open...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys presented competing storylines Wednesday on whether a former top executive at Advanced Micro Devices was ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With his gavel on the line, Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde waged an uphill battle Wednesda...
Personal Injury & Torts
High Court to Review Another Premises Liability Suit
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously agreed to decide whether a bar owner can be held liable ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association has sued one of the state's largest health maintenance organizatio...
Litigation
Judgment Prompts Abject Apology to Dickens, Meal of Delicious Crow
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Today, it is my solemn duty to apologize to Charles Dickens, the great English novelist, for dragging...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Burton Arbitration Bill Is On Its Way to Davis
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The Legislature approved a bill Wednesday that would bar most employers from requiring workers to sign agreements...
Intellectual Property
Ailing Startups' Patents Could Set Them Aright
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - InterTrust Technologies Corp. has yet to publicly assign a dollar figure to the damages it hopes to recover fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent litigator Douglas Derwin resigned his partnership at Weil Gotshal & Manges in 1997 to pursu...
Forum Column - By Michael J. Brady - California is preparing for its historic Oct. 7 recall election. The recall is provided f...
SACRAMENTO - With the recall election just six weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis stepped up his selection of judges Tuesday by nomin...
LOS ANGELES - His résumé reads like a pitch for a memoir. In the past four decades, Richard M. Mosk has investigated the John ...