Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Recusal Will Affect $95 Million Case Post-Trial
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Vincent P. DiFiglia has recused himself from post-trial matters in a case in which a land dev...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday for Wayne O. Veatch, founding partner of Los Angeles' Veatch, Carlson,...
Criminal
Husband Killed His Family for Cash, DA Argues
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Kim Raymond Kopatz was on the brink of financial ruin when he strangled his wife and 3-year-old daughter with an e...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a $4 million-a-year plan to improve the city's response to crim...
LOS ANGELES - Bird-watchers who sued the city of Long Beach and U.S. Department of Navy to ensure the environment is protected...
LOS ANGELES - Following the firing Monday of former chairman Gerald L. Chaleff, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners ...
SACRAMENTO - Tackling the controversial issue of jury nullification for the first time, the California Supreme Court appeared ...
LOS ANGELES - President Clinton's pardon of a man who sold a bogus hair-loss remedy doesn't preclude prosecutors from filing c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A high-security prison that rejects U.S. mail solely because it contains information downloaded from the Inter...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal drug regulators violate the free speech rights of pharmacists by prohibiting them from advertising the...
SAN BERNARDINO - Most Little League baseball teams no doubt would relish any coverage in the hallowed pages of Sports Illustra...
Clients are more likely to retain the services of a certified specialist or a lawyer with a niche practice. In addition to the...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan said Monday that his office has filed manslaughter charges against a big ri...
In Akers v. Sellers, 114 Ind. App. 660 (1944), Chief Judge Harry L. Crumpacker found the following for the court: This is a co...
Judges and Judiciary
Orange County Court Receives Kleps Award
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - The Orange County Superior Court is this year's winner of the Ralph N. Kleps Award, the highest recognition for a ...
LOS ANGELES - The fledgling Chapman University School of Law Library stacks up impressively against its older, more venerable ...
LOS ANGELES - Litigator Eric N. Landau started work Monday as partner with the Securities and Exchange Commission defense prac...
Mark Jan. 8, 2001, as a banner day for the First Amendment, specifically for the principle that individuals cannot be forced t...
For many busy attorneys, the act of declaring 'under penalty of perjury' loses its mystique. ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Saturday for Gregory W. Goff, tax attorney and partner at Los Angeles' O'Melv...
SAN DIEGO - After an 18-month investigation, the state attorney general's office began presenting evidence to a grand jury Mon...
SAN DIEGO - A judge declined Monday to order probation for former San Diego Councilwoman Valerie Stallings, who was convicted ...
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino City Council Monday gave the city clerk's office the green light to hire an outside lawyer...
Government
A Thousand Points of Darkness Reveal Competency-Challenged Bureaucracies
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Sometimes the criminal justice system in Los Angeles seems to consist of a thousand points of darkness. Daily Jo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two accords that have so far gotten relatively little notice hold the potential for significantly altering the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last week, a junk-fax flyer screaming "Giant Law Firm Loses - Case Closed" caught the eye of San Rafael real e...
LOS ANGELES - In a move praised by police backers but denounced by many others, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan Monday fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Invoking an executive power reserved for emergency or war, Gov. Gray Davis seized millions of dollars in energ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The district attorney's office dismissed charges Monday against a highly-regarded deputy public defender who w...
LOS ANGELES - Calling it the only humane and economically sensible thing to do, Rep. Howard Berman, D-Mission Hills, said Mond...