Judges and Judiciary
County Defies Rules, Names New Court Building After Sitting Judge
By Karen Coleman
Superior Court Judge Peter Spinetta's role in bringing a new family court services building to Contra Costa County was so exce...
John Russo, Oakland's first elected city attorney, recently became the first person in that position to take the top spot at t...
Litigation
Firm Sponsors Loyola Law Class In Litigation About Elder Abuse
By Staff Writer
Thanks to a donation from the San Pedro office of Wilkes & McHugh, students at Loyola Law School can learn about elder abu...
By John Ryan San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has added a product liability strength to its West Coast liti...
LOS ANGELES - Alex Dang throws open the door to the room where his co-counsel, Estaban Morales, is rehearsing opening statemen...
After a year of virulent charges and countercharges in the race for San Diego County district attorney, the most inflammatory ...
LOS ANGELES - The Winona Ryder shoplifting trial got off to a rocky start last week with the media and the judge tussling over...
LOS ANGELES - Four hours into opening trial statements, Toyota Motor Corp. agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who claim...
Some jurists might have felt uncomfortable casting the lone vote in favor of letting victims of gun violence sue firearms manu...
Nicholas Trainer's constant blurred vision reminds him of the day he claims two bullies harassed him at school and one shot a ...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego police detective testified Friday that Kristin M. Rossum begged her to destroy methamphetamine and dru...
Judges and Judiciary
San Diego Judicial Race Gets Downright Personal
By Claude Walbert
In San Diego County's only campaign against a sitting judge, Richard S. Whitney says voters see one overriding issue in his ef...
SAN FRANCISCO - A March primary filled with mixed results for Northern California's incumbent judges and district attorneys ha...
LOS ANGELES - MTV Networks is the television home of Ozzy Osbourne, an occasional music video, masochistic pranksters - and no...
SAN FRANCISCO - The worlds of Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon and California Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar ar...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Friday rejected a preliminary injunction application by judicial candidate G...
Sometimes investment advice doesn't pay off. A federal jury awarded $5 million to a Hollywood film producer and entertainment ...
LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit defendant who didn't sign a settlement agreement and didn't send the settlement payments on time canno...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice Accepts Award Given for His Reform Efforts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George isn't about to rest on his laurels - not even the prestigious 2002 Will...
SACRAMENTO - The San Francisco city attorney's office will challenge last week's federal appeals court's decision to throw out...
In the final scramble for votes, several of the judicial candidates in Orange County are dishing the dirt on each other, but c...
Forum Column - By Robert Hertzberg - As the lead author of Proposition 47, I am proud to see the taxpayer, business and educat...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - It has finally happened. After several years of work by an advisory comm...
Peter Boules claims he is being discriminated against because he is not your average bus rider. The 24-year-old Egyptian nativ...
Next week, voters will decide which of the eight judicial candidates will fill four open seats on Los Angeles County Superior ...
LOS ANGELES - Jury selection in the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial got off to a late start yesterday after a lengthy closed-do...
LOS ANGELES - Accused murderer Steven Woodruff will ask a trial judge in Riverside today to allow a separate jury to determine...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer representing Prasad Lakireddy, the one member of the Berkeley family who has pleaded not guilty to hu...
LOS ANGELES - Carlota Montenegro Josefe, a court interpreter for 35 years, has died. Josefe died Oct. 14 at Huntington Memoria...
SAN FRANCISCO - The handwritten poems passed to students in a San Jose high school may have evoked memories of the Columbine m...