Forum Column - By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin - This fall, HALT - An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform - r...
LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...
SUSPENSIONS Germano, Richard John , Rancho Cucamonga Guzzetta, Rudy David , San Jose Honish, Kalieh Rie , Montebello Mantle, G...
SAN FRANCISCO - Skipping court while out on bail is a big no-no. That's what burglary suspect Daniel Walker found out Thursda...
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Russian software company accused of circumventing copyright protections admitted in cl...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the largest individual second-hand smoking award in the United States...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has recruited antitrust partner David R. Garcia from O'Melv...
LOS ANGELES - Proposition 36, the state law that dictates treatment, not prison, for drug addicts, should have kept David Niss...
LOS ANGELES - An 87-year-old woman's quest to recover six Gustav Klimt paintings, which she claims were stolen from her family...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jilted Lover Sues Priest, Claiming Custodial Abandonment
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Already bedeviled by a child molestation scandal, the local archdiocese of the Catholic Church was on the hot...
Forum Column - By Dan Halpern and Linda Martorana - Why is San Mateo County the only Bay Area county without a public defender...
SACRAMENTO - Put your ear to the ground around the state Capitol these days and along with the grumbling over California's $2...
Forum Column - By Earl Klein - The battle rages on over separation of church and state. This time the conflict is about the Te...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A jury ruled Thursday that a diet pill made by San Diego-based Metabolife International was not responsible...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Huey Percy Shepard has resigned from the State Bar. Charges pendi...
LOS ANGELES - Many of Orange resident Sandra Guzman's friends and family gave her gift certificates as wedding presents when s...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced former county toxicologist Kristin Rossum to spend the rest of her life ...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - United Airlines, which has lost $4 billion since the beginning of 2001, recently was tu...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The celebration of the New Year traditionally involves p...
TODAY ART - Sixspace Gallery in Los Angeles unbuckles its swashes and proudly displays " Pirate Booty: the Arrrt of Mates &am...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The holiday season often encourages individuals to reflect on the past...
LOS ANGELES - Complaints against police officers must be kept secret even during officer disciplinary hearings, a state appell...
TUSTIN - An Orange County Superior Court jury has ordered Commonwealth Energy Corp. to pay $2.7 million to 15 former stock sal...
BERKELEY - Veteran law professor and law librarian Robert Berring was named interim dean of Boalt Hall School of Law on Wedne...
LOS ANGELES - Supik Indrawati, an Indonesian woman, spent two years working as the virtual slave of a Palos Verdes couple, eve...
WASHINGTON - A skeptical Supreme Court on Wednesday aggressively questioned whether several men convicted of burning crosses i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dreaming up worst-case scenarios and coming up with ways to get out of them is not an area of expertise many ...
SAN DIEGO - A suggestion from an Internet chat room led to "dynamite" evidence in the murder trial of David A Westerfield, a p...
Criminal
Action Against Aryan Brotherhood Member Leaves Counsel Bewildered
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Federal defense panel lawyer Errol Stambler was in court Tuesday morning wondering, "Why am I here?" ...