SAN FRANCISCO - The lawyer for Nedra Ruiz, the defense attorney in San Francisco's notorious dog mauling case, has asked Super...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprise reversal, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated a $1,000 contempt sanction that it l...
Judges and Judiciary
Law Libraries Get Reprieve As Lawmaker Changes Bill
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A measure that would have eliminated the century-old responsibility of counties to fund public law library facili...
LOS ANGELES - When he set out to run the Suzuki Rock 'N' Roll Marathon in San Diego on June 21, 1998, Richard Saffro had every...
RIVERSIDE - As a young man, Greg Johnson served in the military and worked as an actor, starring in a string of commercials an...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George took a strong stand Wednesday against a jury instruction that requires jurors t...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday convicted a former California Highway Patrol officer of conspiring with his half-brothe...
Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks -- Tens of thousands of California men and women are being charged child support and interest wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bureau of Immigration Appeals has been warned by a federal appeals court that a form used by immigrants to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bringing an end to the decade-old prosecution of stock manipulation involving Scorpion Technologies, a federal...
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has fired a dramatic salvo in the legal war over whether the Second Amendment protects an...
SACRAMENTO - Imagine sitting in a prison cell for the last 15 years for a rape you didn't commit. You've long since exhausted ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has awarded summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit charging the state ...
Column by Garry Abrams - It may sound goofy, but a suit by a journalist against the Walt Disney Co. is beginning to look like ...
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - To clients, people in the office for job interviews and other outsiders, The Firm appears to a ...
Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - What's the difference between an attorney going into business with another attorney o...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Moncharch' and 'Armendariz' Didn't Address Standard-of-Review Issue
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Charles W. McCoy Jr. - Prior to Moncharsh v. Heily & Blase, 3 Cal.4th 1 (1992), California courts...
Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In days of yore, courts granted summary-judgment motions rarely and only where it wa...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would abolish the state's Youthful Offender Parole Board and hand over its duties to juvenile court j...
LOS ANGELES - In a cautious postscript to her unprecedented decision in the Compton election challenge case, Judge Judith Chir...
LOS ANGELES -Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips has recruited antitrust veteran Eliot Disner from Ervin Cohen & Jes...
LOS ANGELES - After years on the bench and with more than half a decade of alternative dispute resolution work under his belt,...
LOS ANGELES - Just one day after "Spider-Man" closed one of the most successful film opening weekends of all time, a San Franc...
SACRAMENTO - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would prohibit pre-employment mandatory arbitration c...
Labor/Employment
Police Union Sues Parks, LAPD For Unfair Promotion Practices
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles police union has sued former police Chief Bernard Parks for allegedly flouting the civil service...
PERRIS - A Lake Elsinore crematory owner accused of stealing parts from bodies intended for cremation has pleaded not guilty t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court gave no clear indication Tuesday how it will rule in a pair of cases that could s...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Army has agreed in a federal court settlement unveiled Tuesday to stop blowing up unwanted bombs, roc...
LOS ANGELES - In early 1999, on a dirt trail used by smugglers in the mountainous terrain along the Mexican border, U.S. Borde...
Judges and Judiciary
Bad Back Forces Superior Court Judge to Give Up Gavel
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - After dealing with criminals for more than 30 years - first as an FBI agent and then as a judge - Orange County Su...