Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The 1985 movie "Back to the Future" featured a crazy scientist who invented a time machi...
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to eliminate life sentences under California's three-strikes law for all but the worst offenders has ...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Wednesday filed papers seeking the disbarment of three Beverly Hills attorneys suspended in May...
LOS ANGELES - The general counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles resigned her post Thursday following the bi...
SAN BERNARDINO - Anything public officials say on the phone in their official capacity is a matter of public interest - at lea...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Beverly Hills attorney who has filed a string of taxpayer actions against government agencies is now facing...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown had it right. On the day in January 2002 when Dennis Herrera was sworn into office as city...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trial lawyers, complaining they can't get continuances unless they are "dead or dying," are on the verge of w...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers say Jennifer T. Lum is dedicated. The day after delivering closing arguments in a multimillion- dollar b...
Appellate Practice
Justices Set Date for Hearing in Campaign-Reform Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear four hours of arguments in the battle over the McCain-Fein...
SACRAMENTO - The judiciary's long-running attempt to find funding to repair and replace crumbling, over-crowded courthouses a...
Litigation
Jury Awards $2.6 Million in Disability Firing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In an unusually large verdict, a jury has awarded a former employee of the state Department of Corrections ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ordered a second-degree murder convict freed, saying the governor's decision to deny t...
Forum Column - By Bruce M. Brusavich - The Judicial Council blue-ribbon task force on jury system improvement recently passed ...
Real Estate/Development
Cases Address Owner Liability for Accidents, Assaults
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Three cases dealing with important premises liability issues recently ...
Tax
Relief Under 2003 Law Goes Mainly to Individuals and Will Be Temporary
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Dean Weiner - On May 23, Congress passed the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003...
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...