SAN FRANCISCO - Hera, one of two giant dogs involved in the fatal mauling of a Pacific Heights woman, probably will be execute...
SAN FRANCISCO -If you pass Judge Richard A. Kramer in a hallway, offer a kind word. His life has suddenly become a lot more co...
SAN FRANCISCO -The judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy, hinting that the company's plan for emerging fr...
Litigation
This Time, Former Minnesota Soccer Mom Stands Accused of Murder
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - So now it's accusations of murder - not just a supposedly semi-innocent, nobody-was-hurt, cop-car bom...
LOS ANGELES - A hard-core drug habit escalated over 15 years to leave Pedro Miranda broke and homeless by October 2000. Powerl...
SACRAMENTO - As a top adviser to Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, Anthony Williams holds the keys to muc...
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien, Ever since about 1965, when I first heard Deputy Barney Fife utter it, I have wondered about t...
Focus Column - By Michael M. Pollak, It is not unusual for a dishonest insured to submit a series of fraudulent claims over th...
Insurance Law Practitioner Column - By Kirk A. Pasich, In 2001, California appellate courts rendered more than 40 decisions ad...
Forum Column - By Ted Hayes, The slogan "Justice For The Homeless" is not the agenda of 98 percent of the advocates and activi...
LOS ANGELES - The glut of young high-tech attorneys in the Bay Area job market continues to grow. San Jose's Skjerven Morrill ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place early next month for John R. Cohan, a prominent financial planning and tax at...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would authorize the judiciary to convert 10 vacant court commissioner positions annually into judgesh...
LOS ANGELES - Four Los Angeles deputy district attorneys have sued their professional organization, the Association of Deputy ...
LOS ANGELES - Once-prominent foster care providers from South Central Los Angeles won a half-million-dollar verdict Tuesday af...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Charles Breyer has rejected the government's practice of demanding that defendants unilaterally ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge ruled Tuesday that the couple charged in the dog mauling death of their neighbor will no...
LOS ANGELES - As Aaron Smith wheeled his car onto Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, he recalled how a man named Cherokee introduc...
Judges and Judiciary
Embattled Mental Health Expert Makes His Exit
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - In 21 years on the bench - 11 of them as supervising judge of Department 95, the county mental health court - an...
OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart has been on the bench just two years - almost all of it in drug...
LOS ANGELES - Once again reinforcing Proposition 36, an appellate court Tuesday ruled that trial courts have the authority to ...
SACRAMENTO - Only violent and serious felons would be eligible for life sentences under California's three-strikes law if eit...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Sherman S. Welpton Jr., a retired senior partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, w...
Law Practice
Audit Finds Deficiencies at Public Defender's Office
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County public defender's office is overworked, understaffed, underfunded and lacks directi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joan Haratani, a litigator who had spent her entire 17-year legal career at Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach &a...
LOS ANGELES - One by one, psychiatric patients of Metropolitan State Hospital filed into the community center to receive a hol...
WASHINGTON - Delivering a rare decision disfavoring arbitration, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled, 6-3, that the federal Equ...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge John M. Thompson issued a sweeping gag order Tuesday in the case of a former medical examiner...
Civil Rights
Access to Courts Often Comes Too Easily for the Mentally Ill
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Richard Van Horn, Access to the legal system in America for poor people is rarely more than a theory or a ni...
Forum Column - By Joaquin G. Avila, Voting rights - a kaleidoscopic phrase, subject to different interpretations and often eli...