LOS ANGELES - Saturday morning, a group of five dozen Los Angeles lawyers, summer associates, law-firm personnel and Habitat f...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, already backed for re-election by the county police chiefs as...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has slammed Orange County Judge James M. Brooks and attorney Constance Endelicato over t...
SANTA ANA - The former media spokeswoman for District Attorney Tony Rackauckas filed a claim against the county and district a...
LOS ANGELES - Real estate developer Alan I. Casden, who has expressed interest in buying the Los Angeles Dodgers, has filed a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld California's impending ban on the gasoline additive ...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County public defender and three-time candidate for judge has been charged with a misdemeanor count o...
Government
Federal Report on Terrorism Offers First Clues to Ashcroft's Brain
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Every once in a while, I find myself wrestling with the deep philosophical question, "What's inside U...
LOS ANGELES - After quarreling with Justice Department officials over what charges to bring, the prosecutor assigned to the ca...
Entertainment & Sports
Justices Weigh Allowing Claims Against Sports Coaches
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court debated Wednesday whether to expand liability for coaches when young athletes are ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal authorities unsealed stock fraud indictments Wednesday against the former general counsel and the for...
LOS ANGELES - Turning up the heat on the budget fight, Mayor Jim Hahn Wednesday attempted to veto the city's spending plan, bu...
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera believes building contractors have cheated San Francisco taxpayers out of hundred...
SAN FRANCISCO - To the whoops of medical marijuana supporters, a federal judge Wednesday ordered just one day in prison with c...
Administrative/Regulatory
Jurist's Tough-Love Justice Guides Addicts to Sobriety
By Anne La Jeunesse
SANTA MARIA - Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rogelio R. Flores doesn't spend a lot of time sitting on the bench. It's easi...
Forum Column - By Christopher M. Kelly - Calls for privacy protection in Latin America are getting an unexpected boost from su...
Appellate Practice
Attorneys Must Keep Informed On Changes to Appellate Rules
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James M. Harris and Jill Faulkner McNeal - The appellate rules of the California Rules of Co...
Focus Column - By Laura Esquivel, Jackie Goldberg and Jennifer C. Pizer - In 1988, Lydia Ramos met the love of her life, Linda...
Constitutional Law
Legal Scholar Will Testify in Favor of Putting Curbs on Debates
By Mark Cromer
LOS ANGELES - As Democratic filibusters continue to logjam President Bush's efforts to appoint conservative jurists to the fed...
Pamela Jester, who has served as interim director of Continuing Education of the Bar, has been named as the organization's per...
LOS ANGELES - Outspoken constitutional scholar Douglas Kmiec is headed back to Southern California, where he will resume his f...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court said Tuesday that a Hollywood screenwriter can sue Sony Pictures for allegedly infringin...
LOS ANGELES - Despite being courted by local Democratic party leaders, Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss announced Tuesda...
LOS ANGELES - More minority judges, court staff and lawyers are needed to boost public trust in U.S. courts, the president-ele...
LOS ANGELES - Families suing for the loss of loved ones who perished in an Alaska Airlines jet crash three years ago have move...
Military Law
Ex-Petty Officer's Petition Goes Before Highest Military Court
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The nation's highest military court, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, has agreed to review the U.S. Na...
LOS ANGELES - A gay Guatemalan immigrant is fighting for asylum, arguing that he faces severe persecution if sent back to a co...
OAKLAND - When the University of California gets sued by an employee, it's easy to root for the little guy, the plaintiff who ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Mexican doctor who was illegally kidnapped and abducted to Texas from Mexico on orders of U.S. drug agents i...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Xenophon F. Lang Sr. He was 85. While La...