RIVERSIDE - It would have been a messy escape attempt. But pawing through the contents of the toilet bowl is the only way Rive...
Personal Injury & Torts
Railroad Must Stand Trial in Boy's Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - A San Bernardino County commissioner has denied a motion for summary judgment by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Co...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer accused of sending threatening e-mails to opposing counsel in Los Angeles and San Diego probably suffer...
LOS ANGELES - Kristina Tapia considers herself a normal 17-year-old, an 11th-grader who is looking forward to college but who ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Navy Commander Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is an ace-pilot-turned-lawyer who plays fast and loose with the rules as...
LOS ANGELES - Reg Fudge Jr. started his 40s as a car salesman and his 50s as a criminal defense lawyer. By his mid-50s, he had...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court opinion published this week will strengthen the rights of California property owners in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of the arraignment in San Francisco's fatal dog-mauling case, the city's public defender's office a...
SAN FRANCISCO - In Stanislaus County's 61-year-old courthouse, the antiquated heating and air conditioning systems leave emplo...
Juvenile
Bill Provides Liability Protection For Pupils Who Warn of Violence
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - High-school shootings and defamation lawsuits against informants have led California legislators to seek liabili...
Tiny, tiny particles - so small they are called microspheres - are at the center of a big biotechnology legal battle. BioSpher...
Despite its repeated denials that its officers engage in the abhorrent and illegal practice of racial profiling, the Los Angel...
SB476 would return California to the dark ages of civil procedure, when form ruled over substance and frivolous lawsuits linge...
Hundreds of lawyers are suspended yearly for not paying bar dues. ...
The Humphrey decision adds a new barb to the already-thorny problem of enforcing attendance-control policies with regard to di...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge on Wednesday ordered a woman accused of a double homicide to stand trial for murder based s...
Judges and Judiciary
Would-Be Ravisher Gets Cold Feet, Makes Barely a Peep
By Columnist
In Jackson v. Georgia, 91 Ga. 322 (1892), Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley found the following for the court: As defined...
The legitimacy of private arbitration as a means of vindicating statutory rights is far from settled, even after Circuit Ci...
LOS ANGELES - A Miami jury has returned a $2 million verdict against Home Depot and a lighting company for selling a knockoff ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A mistake by prosecutors let death row inmate Larry Roberts and Solano County Superior Court Judge Franklin A....
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Sony Pictures Entertainment executive vice president, general counsel and secretary Ron Jacobi will lea...
Solo and Small Firms
S.J.'s Hopkins Loses Litigators to Coudert Brothers
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Hopkins & Carley, a small San Jose business and litigation firm, announced Wednesday that it had launched ...
SAN BERNARDINO - A judge has denied a Fontana man's bid for a retrial despite the defendant's argument that he can prove a jur...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Wednesday declared the Los Angeles city attorney's office and the police department in co...
LOS ANGELES - Mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa's victory in Tuesday's primary election signals a change to the political...
LOS ANGELES - As Tuesday night's vote tallies scrolled across video screens at election events across Los Angeles, emotions sw...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling that Houston-based Enron Corp. has potentially caused California schools irreparable harm, a federal ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - After hearing that he confessed three times, a San Francisco jury Wednesday convicted a former Mexican police ...
Litigation
Feds File Bias Lawsuit Against Two Landlords
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the owners of two Riverside apartment complexes, alleging th...
Litigation
Legal Paramedic Award Winners Resuscitate Moribund 'Coppola v. Warner Bros.'
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - This week's Legal Paramedic Award for best mouth-to-mouth on a moribund case goes to movie director Francis Ford...