LOS ANGELES - Aging writers who claim they can't get work in Hollywood can't get their lawsuit to trial, either. The writers'...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In the aftermath of David Westerfield's conviction and death sentence for the kidnapping ...
Constitutional Law
Excising the Lord from Graduation Speech Probably OK
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a contest between free speech and separation of church and state, a federal appeals panel has suggested th...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Judges May Either Sit On Assignment or Do Private Judging, But They Can't Do Both Anymore
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Angry at what they see as insults to their integrity, many retired jurists vow they will quit working as assi...
Judges and Judiciary
CJA Could Have Done More, Critics of New Rule Complain
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In addition to being mad at Chief Justice Ronald M. George for banning assigned judges from acting as private...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court Urges Legislature to Act To Curb Dangerous Chases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Division 3 of the 4th District Court of Appeal has joined the crusade ...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - The granting of certiorari in Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont and the re...
Employment Column - By Luan J. McElroy - Although California has yet to see a complete economic recovery, all is not bleak for...
Labor/Employment
Court Axes Garment Workers' Lawsuit Against Their Union
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Thursday threw out a lawsuit against the world's largest garment-workers union, ruling t...
Zoning, Planning and Use
City's Permit Approval Process Delay Isn't Temporary Taking
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - A city's erroneous denial of a lot-line adjustment did not constitute a "t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown and District Attorney Terence Hallinan clashed Thursday over the police department's inves...
SAN FRANCISCO - Andrea Wirum, a securities, finance and insolvency lawyer, is the new managing partner of Pillsbury Winthrop'...
Judges and Judiciary
Nothing Warm or Fuzzy About U.S. Judge Edward Garcia
By Pam Mac Lean
SACRAMENTO - U.S. District Judge Edward J. Garcia has come a long way for someone who traveled a very short distance. Raised i...
SACRAMENTO - As his office investigates five law firms for possible illegal activity, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer is ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A huge legal roadblock to the entry of long-haul Mexican trucks into the United States was erected Thursday by...
LOS ANGELES - Dressed in black and carrying cardboard coffins, several dozen members of the American Friends Service Committe...
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was sworn in for another four-year term yesterday and promptly ann...
Forum Column - By Eric Schippers - Having ruled that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the words "under God...
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has won a $10 million judgment in a defamation lawsuit against a gay porn star w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation finally have entered the bedroom. Using a law enacted a decad...
LOS ANGELES - Bryan Cave has appointed product liability and commercial litigation partner Jeffrey W. Morof to lead its Santa ...
Criminal
Lawyers Drop Like Flies as Blake Tries Directing His Murder Movie
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Actor-turned-murder-defendant Robert Blake seems to be going for a jailhouse Oscar. The name of Bla...
LOS ANGELES - Five more primarily Islamic countries have been added to the list of states whose nationals are required to regi...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan stopped just short Wednesday of accusing the police department of a coveru...
LOS ANGELES - A just-completed federal report on California's child protective system indicates that too many of the 100,000 c...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge refused Wednesday to throw out a complaint by the trustee for a bankrupt computer leasi...
Criminal
Pot Trial in U.S. Court Inspires Call for Jury Nullification
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's ability to win the conviction of an alleged marijuana grower, deputized by the city ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Superior Court would shut down at noon every other Friday under one proposal to cope with a...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and Mayor James K. Hahn unveiled a new anti-gang strategy Wednesday the...
LOS ANGELES - Entertainment giant Louis Meisinger is leaving his post as general counsel of the Walt Disney Co. to return to p...