Working in a research facility in Brea more than a decade ago, Unocal scientists Peter Jessup and Michael Croudace positioned ...
Since the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act and California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, the vast majority ...
In many states, California included, the only legal requirement for becoming a judge is the length of time spent as a lawyer. ...
When the market for public offerings closed down last year, many companies were faced with a difficult dilemma. They needed ca...
Technology & Science
Site Scorches Microwaved Dogs and Other Myths
By Contributing Writer
Does anyone really believe that cats can suck the breath out of babies? Or that rice tossed at the bride and groom is dangerou...
March Madness. We all know that's about basketball. May madness is different. Maybe it was something in the Los Angeles air or...
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the National Park Service on Thursday to force the removal of a 5-foot-t...
LOS ANGELES - A coalition of immigrant rights groups Thursday called on Congress to pass legislation to aid migrants, includin...
RIVERSIDE - A judge sentenced Kim Raymond Kopatz to death Thursday for strangling his wife and 3-year-old daughter with an ele...
SAN JOSE - Retired state appeal court Justice Marc Poch, who abruptly withdrew from the Avant criminal trade secrets case Tues...
SAN FRANCISCO - Twice-convicted murderer Robert Lee Massie will not have access to his priest for the final 45 minutes before ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The East Bay judge behind the first-ever judicially mandated auto recall will be asked today for his understan...
Judges and Judiciary
Bush Ends ABA's Role Rating Judicial Nominees
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - President Bush on Thursday ended the American Bar Association's historic and leading role rating potential nomin...
LOS ANGELES - If all goes according to plan, audiences watching Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony will not see a single l...
SAN BERNARDINO - Jane Ilknur Un spent 18 months in state prison for violating a plea agreement that an appellate court now say...
Government
Contributor to DA's Campaign Has Long History With Office
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - When Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas withdrew a civil complaint filed against one of his campaign ...
The Esberg court held that excluding a worker over 40 from an educational-assistance program did not constitute age discrimina...
SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-two years ago an aging Union City steel mill shut its doors, throwing 400 steelworkers off their jobs. ...
The Supreme Court held that the 11th Amendment bars state employees from recovering money damages under Title I of the America...
Remember a long time ago when some people, like the American Bar Association, your law professor or people who write ethical r...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal Environmental Protection Agency moved Wednesday to reject local plans for cleaning up Bay Area smo...
Pity those poor people who are asked to sign prenuptial agreements. They are clearly the downtrodden members of society who ne...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to clarify the retroactivity of the state's 1998 law stripping p...
Better to prepare clients for possible outcomes than to surprise them at the end. ...
SAN JOSE - The Avant criminal trade secrets case, once again, has descended into farce. Nearly four years after the Santa Clar...
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday upholding employers' use of mandatory arbitration agreements, California l...
SAN FRANCISCO -Two intellectual property partners, Robert Padway and Marcy Bergman, have left the San Francisco outpost of Por...
LOS ANGELES - Gun dealers in Los Angeles will have to obtain the thumbprint of firearms purchasers under one of a pair of gun-...
LOS ANGELES - An insurance company that initially refused to pay more than $3.5 million to the paralyzed victim of a rollover ...
LOS ANGELES - A union representing Los Angeles Superior Court research attorneys, law clerks and paralegals has rejected a cou...