WASHINGTON - Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White testified Thursday that attorney general-designate John Ashcroft had di...
SAN FRANCISCO - After 22 years as San Francisco's Public Defender, Jeff Brown was appointed Thursday by Gov. Gray Davis to fil...
Bankruptcy
Utility Firms Ponder Bankruptcy While Residents Remain in Dark
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - As light bulbs in Northern California flicker, dim and blink off, enveloping millions of energy consumers in sta...
SAN DIEGO - State prosecutors are investigating how the forged signature of the county's presiding judge is showing up on pape...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury handed $450,000 Wednesday to two former hospital chaplains who were forbidden by their e...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ted Russell, a prominent local litigator and partner with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, suffered a ...
It's two in the morning and I'm startled from an already restless sleep. It's the sleep of a lawyer in the midst of trial: fit...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles case testing the privacy of police personnel files against a defendant's right to a fair trial w...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley, a San Jose state appellate court has thrown out a trade-secret-theft ...
In Christy Bros. Circus v. Turnage, 144 S.E. 680 (1928), Judge Alexander W. Stephens held the following for the court, in pert...
Every day, companies purchase insurance to pay defense costs should they become embroiled in litigation, and most companies as...
In the verbally scrambled world of newly anointed President George Dubya Bush, the aphorism that no good deed goes unpunished ...
Despite the apparent breadth of the language of total pollution exclusions, their scope is not as broad as many insurers argue...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside lawyer has been convicted of assisting in a conservatorship fraud that robbed elderly and ill people o...
Civil Rights
Family Sues Police for Death of Man in Chase
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The family of a Los Angeles man shot and killed in Orange County while trying to escape police has sued the Los An...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Ana Justice Will Retire in June
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Fourth District Court of Appeal Justice Thomas F. Crosby, an 18 1/2-year veteran of the appellate bench who is kno...
LOS ANGELES - Services will be conducted Friday for Robert C. Packard, a founder of Los Angeles aviation defense boutique Kirt...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles leaders locked horns Tuesday night over who is responsible for the Police Department's woes and what...
LOS ANGELES - Sheri A. Bluebond, a partner at Irell & Manella, will join the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central Distric...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for prominent entertainment and communications attorney Walter C. Schier. Schier died ...
Judges and Judiciary
Power Outage Hits Supreme, Appeal and Trial Courts
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time since the state's energy crisis began last summer, threats of rolling blackouts came true a...
VENTURA - The Ventura County Sheriff's Department agreed Wednesday to a court order barring jail officials from keeping detain...
Law Practice
Dog-Eat-Dog Economy Teaches Brobeck Phleger to Advertise or Die
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Advertise or die. Stripped to its Darwinian core, that's the motivation behind San Francisco firm Brobeck, Phleg...
WASHINGTON - Attorney General-nominee John Ashcroft, responding to intense grilling from Senate Democrats during his confirmat...
SAN FRANCISCO - You probably care very little, if at all, about the type of belt buckles international shoppers buy on the Int...
The justices on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001 announced the following actions:
SAN DIEGO - Next month, the American Bar Association will hold its annual midyear meeting in San Diego for the first time. Sch...
SAN BERNARDINO - The VIP Room at the Flesh Club in San Bernardino offered more than the usual adult-entertainment fare on seve...
The person must directly draft the documents, transcribe them or cause them to be transcribed; otherwise, the statute does not...
First, there were the jokes -- demeaning, incendiary. Then, the ridicule. "Idiot" was a mild term. Harassment -- that came wit...