SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a death sentence for a pro per murder defendant who claimed du...
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Yucca Valley's man conviction on drug charges because prose...
SAN JOSE - A confidential settlement has been reached in a civil lawsuit accusing two former Redback Networks engineers and th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Much of what is at stake in the eight-month-old Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy will come down to a fe...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles is weighing a wide array of criminal theories against New York-based Milberg...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a narrow vote cinched by its newest justice, the California Supreme Court on Thursday significantly expande...
Entertainment Law Practitioner Column - By John M. Genga, Still struggling to apply the law in cyberspace, courts continue to ...
Litigation
Defense in Sex-Crimes DA's Slander Suit Cries Foul
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The attorney for a Victorville deputy public defender on trial for allegedly defaming a sex crimes prosecutor...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Wilo Nunez hadn't appeared in Judge Jose I. Sandoval's court before, so he was surprised...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that a civil suit against accused Symbionese Liberation Army m...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, The sight of four aging, middle-class former Symbionese Liberation Army members - Sar...
Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht, Take a party's deposition, and the party's lawyer will attend. Take a nonparty's deposition...
Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro, The slowing economy has prompted many law firms and corporate legal departments to c...
SAN BERNARDINO - When S. Donald Ames was a deputy public defender, another attorney used to teasingly call him "Rookie" becaus...
Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan, It may be true that you cannot legislate integration, but you can legislate desegreg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who know San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren say his sense of decorum will serve him well ...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has handed a victory to former Los Angeles police Chief Willie Williams in his drawn-out batt...
Judges and Judiciary
Bush Names Two Litigators to Federal Bench in Los Angeles
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - President Bush announced Wednesday his intention to nominate two Los Angeles civil litigators, Percy Anderson an...
Personal Injury & Torts
City Can Be Sued for 911 Dispatcher's Fatal Error
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Calling San Francisco's ambulance service "morally blameworthy," a state appellate court ruled Wednesday that ...
Forum Column - By Alan Schlosser and Andrew Lurie, One of the extraordinary byproducts of the Sept. 11 attacks has been to thr...
Constitutional Law
High Court Will Review False Charges Against Police
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide the constitutionality of a law that it makes it a crim...
LOS ANGELES - One week after Sara Jane Olson was charged with the murder of a Northern California church volunteer and sentenc...
SACRAMENTO - A state lawmaker has renewed an effort to restore the rights of homeowners to sue for construction defects that p...
SANTA ANA - Two law firms have been sued by 42 former clients for alleged negligence, fraud, unfair business practices and eld...
SAN FRANCISCO -John O'Connor, a trial lawyer who co-founded San Francisco's Tarkington O'Connor & O'Neill more than 20 yea...
Forum Column - By Henry F. Cooper, The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is dead at last, thanks to the announcement that the Unit...
Column by Garry Abrams - Maybe it's because I'm a Southern California resident and have learned to accept the daily possibilit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County District Attorney Mike Mullins is running hard for re-election against a strong challenge by one...
SACRAMENTO - A carefully drafted definition of a "smoking gun" could be the key to passing a bill that bans confidential disco...
Criminal
Questionnaire Will Probe Panel Members' Attitudes About Pets
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Do you consider yourself a dog person or a cat person? That is question No. 63 of a 29-page questionnaire that p...