SACRAMENTO - Nowhere does the Fourth Amendment come closer to home for most people than when they get pulled over for a traffi...
Judges and Judiciary
Rival to Marin's Verna Adams Says Judges Are Spendthrifts
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Rafael attorney, calling the Marin bench an insiders club that shunts off too many cases to expensive me...
RIVERSIDE - The provost of the University of California system has decided to postpone planning for law schools at UC Riversid...
SAN DIEGO - Members of seven law enforcement organizations on Thursday joined the Deputy District Attorneys Association in cal...
LOS ANGELES - In the movie "Traffic," drug enforcement agents swelter in the back of an unmarked van as they sit, eavesdroppin...
LOS ANGELES - Three Superior Court judges will face challenges for their seats in a March primary, in which six county prosecu...
Personal Injury & Torts
Injured Golfer Can't Sue City, 2nd District Rules
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - A golfer who teed off early without waiting for two other members of her group was responsible for her own safet...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has cleared the way for the mother of a boy killed during a schoolyard brawl in Palmdale...
Entertainment & Sports
Veteran Attorney Worked as Chief Counsel for Universal
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Joseph V. Di Muro, an entertainment lawyer for more than half a century who had be...
SAN JOSE -Hewlett-Packard Co. has sued a former employee in federal court for sabotaging the testing of a powerful server the ...
LOS ANGELES - To date, nineteen candidates are running for seven seats in the March 5 primary. Four of those seats are being v...
Education
Student Files Bias Suit Against Pepperdine, Business Professor
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - A student enrolled in both the law and business schools at Pepperdine University sued the university and a busin...
BERKELEY - As a young girl, the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall was willing t...
In times of danger and fear, the government often has taken steps that not only were not necessary but also deprived people of...
There is a conservative master plan in effect that has as its final objective the complete separation and isolation from socie...
Appellate Practice
Court Takes on Suspicionless Drug Testing of School Students
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Jumping back into the controversy over drug testing of students, the Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to consider...
Does an employee's failure to utilize a company's complaint procedure forfeit the right to seek redress for racial jokes made ...
SAN JOSE - In a sweeping ruling that may help determine how much free speech is allowed in cyberspace, a federal judge ruled W...
SAN FRANCISCO - When they do it again next month, Jim Lazarus will once again be the favorite. Lazarus won the most votes in T...
Administrative/Regulatory
How Do You Feel About Our Actions in Afghanistan?
By Columnist
;"I support the government's attempt to quell terrorism across the world and to target the terrorists who targeted us on Sept....
SAN FRANCISCO - Funeral services were held Wednesday for Walter Francis Freitas, retired attorney and scion of Marin County pi...
LOS ANGELES - The district attorney's office doesn't plan to prosecute any more cases stemming from the Rampart scandal, Distr...
Government
Ontario Officials Outlaw Watching Street Races
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
ONTARIO - Ontario officials voted Tuesday night to make watching street racing in the city a misdemeanor, enabling police offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Solano County District Attorney's office has decided to appeal a court's ruling that a California law impo...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Entertainment Pro Joins JAMS as Mediator
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood veteran Richard Reisberg has joined the Los Angeles office of Irvine-based JAMS as a resolution expert...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - San Bernardino County prosecutors are charging an Ontario woman with making a false anthrax threat by pouri...
SAN DIEGO - The Deputy District Attorneys Association handed District Attorney Paul Pfingst a political setback Wednesday with...
LOS ANGELES - The wife of a man on trial for murder may claim marital privilege to avoid testifying against him, despite the c...
LOS ANGELES - Music litigator Mark Passin has hopped from Los Angeles music-law boutique Engel & Engel to Century City's A...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eight reputed Aryan Brotherhood prison gang members, accused of a series of violent crimes in Northern Califor...