SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a new state budget Thursday and, while his cuts to the judiciary were mostly minor, an exp...
In 1984, two of the most powerful lobbies in America, pharmaceuticals and tobacco, were confronted with a shared mercantile cr...
The court held that the electronic versions of the articles were new, separate reproductions and publications of the individua...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday refused defense lawyers' requests to remove the district attorney's ...
LOS ANGELES - A wealthy computer-firm owner accused of being "the Limousine Rapist" walked out of a downtown jail Thursday aft...
LOS ANGELES - Gilad Gadasi is a fresh-faced Israeli immigrant, just a plumber, his lawyer said. But unfortunately for him, Gad...
Environmental
Suits Target Bars That Don't Enforce No-Smoking Policies
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - More than three years after state law banned smoking in California bars, patrons can puff on a cigarette at a fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - The same month that a bankruptcy judge approved $17 million in bonuses for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. execut...
This ruling further restricts the ability of employees of contractors or their relatives to sue third parties for workplace in...
When comedian Henny Youngman enriched American humor with his famous line "Take my wife. Please!" we knew he was kidding. But ...
The Fair Employment and Housing Act (Government Code Section 12940 et seq.) permits claims of sexual harassment, sex discrimin...
The negotiation site can make the difference between success and failure. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Who Should Replace Mosk on the High Court?
By Contributing Writer
Who should replace Stanley Mosk on the California Supreme Court? ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco civil court judge has temporarily halted the execution of Hera, the Presa Canario involved in ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Judge Won't Bar Bookstore Booths for Flesh Flicks
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County judge Wednesday refused to bar a Cathedral City adult bookstore from operating booths in which ...
RIVERSIDE - City Attorney Stan Yamamoto, who served Riverside during the city's legal controversies involving Tyisha Miller an...
LOS ANGELES - Ending more than a year of negotiations over a contract for research attorneys at the Los Angeles Superior Court...
Judges and Judiciary
Accused Ex-Judge Wants Insurer to Pay for Her Defense
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray had to make a federal case out of the ethics charges lodged against h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The intellectual challenge for Judge Michael Daly Hawkins in reading mountains of briefs and writing hundreds ...
SACRAMENTO - The state Senate hasn't issued contempt sanctions against a defiant target of an investigation in more than 70 ye...
Intellectual Property
Avant Founder Gets 2 Years In Prison as Three Resign
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The long-running Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case climaxed Wednesday with one of the defendants, a company c...
Technology & Science
E-Book Hacker Can Repent for Alleged Crime at Shrine of Gutenberg
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Leave it to the Digital Revolution to turn the simple pleasures of reading and sharing books with friends into a...
LOS ANGELES - Once stigmatized by the community and hounded by police and immigration officers, day laborers are coming into t...
The art of drafting pleadings in family-law cases is dead. It has been usurped by a behemoth known as Judicial Council, which ...
After serving many years in the U.S. Army, attorney Kris P. Thompson knows how to fight hard for his clients. ...
Call Linda Bulmash the reluctant resolver. After years on both the plaintiff and the defense sides of litigation, Bulmash know...
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in less than a week, the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday freed a jailed cocaine abus...
Last November, California voters, by a landslide margin, enacted a historic change in the state's handling of nonviolent drug ...
The Circuit City decision is strong reason to question the continued validity of the California Supreme Court's recent ...