SANTA ANA - In the largest Federal Trade Commission action of its kind, more than 18,000 home-mortgage borrowers will receive ...
Judges and Judiciary
Escutia's Last-Minute Effort Was Too Much, Critics Say
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Every year at the end of the legislative session, there's a mad scramble by lobbyists to get their pet projects a...
LOS ANGELES - When Mohammad Sayed and Omar Zazia decided to take a Saturday night off from their university studies to see a l...
SAN DIEGO - A judge suspended jury deliberations Tuesday in the trial of David A. Westerfield because a juror was ill, setting...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank asked a federal court Tuesday to strike down two separate ordinances by D...
LOS ANGELES - An Italian pasta machine manufacturer cannot be held liable for an accident involving one of its kitchen applian...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Central Valley lawyer who had a financial stake in a series of bond contracts while serving as a city attorn...
Personal Injury & Torts
California Courts Differ on Liability for Negligent Handling of Emergency Calls
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Focus Column - By Daniel P. Barer - "Nine-one-one." Long before the Sept. 11 attacks lent those three digits an ironic double ...
Terror and the Law - Forum Column - By Jan Ting - Since Sept. 11, the United States has been engaged in a life and death strug...
WASHINGTON - While the hours that followed the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., resonated with a simple unde...
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner Everybody does redirect examination, but does that mean it is smart? I believe that all co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Why the California Supreme Court devotes its precious time to reviewing some cases and not others is often a m...
SAN DIEGO - After a day of deliberating without fresh requests for testimony or exhibits, jurors went home Monday without reac...
Constitutional Law
Church Club At School Has Equal Rights, Circuit Rules
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Student-led religious clubs must be given equal access to the same school resources as non-sectarian student c...
LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, head of the Jewish Defense League, may be on the wrong side of the law lately, as he sits in federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's re...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - In just one hour and 42 minutes, manifest U.S. symbols of economic might known all over...
SAN FRANCISCO - Vawter "Buck" Parker wasn't scared when he got the ominously worded letter last fall from a member of Congress...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prison guards forced an Egyptian immigrant, Hady Hassan Omar, to undergo humiliating body searches and...
LOS ANGELES - Services for Irwin N. Bloom of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office will take place today in Inglew...
LOS ANGELES - Lavely & Singer has sued former basketball star and consummate bad boy Dennis Rodman for $193,818.92 in unpa...
Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In the recent case of Romero v. Romero, 2002 D...
Column by Garry Abrams - A day after last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks comment...
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1999, when a jury ordered the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency to pay more than twice what it offered to own...
LOS ANGELES - As Drinker Biddle & Reath New York managing partner Matther Farley walks past ground zero each morning, his ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's reo...
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - Oscar Wilde famously said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being tal...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Frolik, a San Francisco attorney for more than 50 years, has died after a six-month struggle with leuke...
Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has launched a medical devices and pharmaceuticals practice group, the firm announced last mo...
A hot piece of real estate in the San Fernando Valley soon may be in the hands of a new owner. AH Warner Center Properties has...