Alternative Dispute Resolution
Investors' Path to Court Is Cleared a Bit
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles appeals court has created a way for unhappy investors to get around the refusal of the securitie...
LOS ANGELES - The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is paying the fees for a private judge who has issued a secret draft rul...
Personal Injury & Torts
Pastor Sues TV Station For Airing Nude Photo
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - They were two couples posing for photographs one night in the privacy of a backyard hot tub, the two women choosing to...
Criminal
Juries Often Correctly Give Police Officers Benefit of the Doubt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Everett Bobbitt - Although many observers were surprised by the outcome of the Inglewood "police-abuse" case...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeff Winikow - The amount of information available to legal practitioners is simply stagger...
Forum Column - By Leo James Terrell - As a civil rights attorney and radio journalist, I monitored the case of People v. Mo...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Robin C. Gilden and Kalyani R. Chirra - Selecting a business entity requires considering the feder...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Richard and Agnes Wiebe, a Rancho Cucamonga couple charged with murdering their baby daughter by denying he...
LOS ANGELES - Andrew Luster's mother wants her money back. Luster, the convicted serial rapist who is in prison after being ca...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Appoints 5 Judges; 15 Since Recall Qualified
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis, continuing a flurry of judicial appointments since the recall election qualified for the ball...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's office Wednesday filed attempted extortion charges against a photog...
RIVERSIDE - Amy Prien lived in a house that was a "revolving door" for drug dealers and users, and she often slept in such a d...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for three defendants charged with assault in the Fajitagate case said Wednesday they will file malic...
Appellate Practice
ACLU Says It's Not About Davis, It's About Vote Counts
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - Three years ago, Gov. Gray Davis was an enemy of racial justice in the eyes of the A...
Technology & Science
Matchmaking Web Site Is Immune in False Posting
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Actress Chase Masterson cannot sue a matchmaking Web site for posting sexually suggestive material with her ho...
Litigation
Jury Hands Alleged Pimp $3 Million Bonus in Credit-Card Sex Dispute
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered a bank and a credit card processing company to pay thro...
LOS ANGELES - As gubernatorial candidates last week made their final decisions to join the state's recall election circus, the...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The instant that Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert announced that he woul...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Case Allocates Responsibility Between Court and Arbitrator
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - California law permits the consolidation of separate arb...
SAN BERNARDINO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed one judge to the Riverside Superior Court bench and two judges to the Sa...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Delegates OK Second-Parent Adoption
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - While most of the attention during the American Bar Association's just-concluded convention focused on attorne...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the supervised release in Soledad of B...
LOS ANGELES - New user fees and hikes in existing civil and criminal filing charges take effect this month to help bridge a $9...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired East Bay lawyer Robert Eshleman, whose elegant and concise prose was a hallmark of his firm's appellat...
Criminal
Circuit Rejects Aliens' Appeal Claiming Bias in Prosecutions
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In the past 15 years, 94 percent of the local federal public defender's clients prosecuted for illegal reentry...
Family
County OKs $1 Million Payout to Six Claiming Foster-Care Abuse
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $1 million settlement to six children who had acc...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has set an Aug. 18 hearing on the ACLU of Southern California's request for a tempor...
LOS ANGELES - A campaign to compensate hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants for their expulsion by California officials...
Judges and Judiciary
New Judge Sees Bench as Another Adventure in Life
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - Judge Roger A. Luebs is always up for a good adventure. Armed with a compass and backpack, Luebs scaled the jagged ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Kamala Harris for District Attorney campaign dismissed as a dirty trick Tuesday an anonymous complaint to ...