Although most movies have no business being longer than two hours, every so often movie-makers invite viewers to watch films t...
Education
ACLU Files Class Action for L.A. Students in Five-Class Auditorium
By Jeffrey Anderson
Exercising its considerable influence over local school matters, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has...
RIVERSIDE - Danuta Tuszynska, once the highest-ranking woman in the Riverside County district attorney's office, Tuesday filed...
Government
Carnahan Can Call Himself 'Professor'
By Denise Levin And Anna Marie Stolley
South Bay Municipal Court Commissioner Douglas O. Carnahan can call himself "professor" on the upcoming judicial election ball...
Intentional discrimination and attempts to cover it up can result in punitive damages. ...
Olson Seeks Delay In Bombing Trial Attorneys for former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson are seeking...
Judges and Judiciary
Bobys Ahead in Contributions for Judicial Race
By Anne La Jeunesse
Beverly Hills Municipal Court Commissioner Hugh Bobys has emerged as the leader in campaign contributions for the March judici...
LOS ANGELES - Construction of the planned Roman Catholic cathedral complex in downtown Los Angeles may continue as planned, a...
Gangs' Activities Restricted By Court A judge issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday against two gangs in the Harbor City a...
SAN DIEGO - Richard B. Ault, the youngest municipal court judge in California when appointed at age 38, and who went on to ser...
SAN FRANCISCO - The long-running battle between attorney Maureen Kallins and the local judiciary escalated Wednesday in U.S. D...
WASHINGTON - Deciding two criminal-law issues, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a person's unprovoked flight from pol...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an attorney who contended that the prominent Santa Monica law firm of Haight,...
With the primary election less than two months away, incumbent L.A. County District Attorney Gil Garcetti continues easily to ...
Recent court decisions have fleshed out the affirmative defense to sexual harassment claims. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Jose-based Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel is opening a San Francisco office with the...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court, in what appeared to be an unexpectedly sweeping victory for environmental plaintiffs,...
Criminal
Jesus Loves the Little Children - but Not as Much as Law Enforcement
By Garry Abrams
When California's March election rolls around, it will be the Roman Catholic Church vs. the state's district attorneys, practi...
Litigation
Coalition Raises $44M, Seeking 'No' Vote on Propositions 30, 31
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Backers of referenda to repeal legislation that would expand bad-faith lawsuits against insurers raised an astoun...
County OKs $2.6M In Suit Settlements The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to spend $2.6 milli...
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has named litigator Robert B. Hubbell the new managing partner of its 55-attorney Los Ange...
Parkin Will Join ARC in February Former Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert W. Parkin announced Tuesday he will ...
The 'Broughton' case has revealed a chink in the FAA preemption wall. ...
U.S. Bankruptcy judges in San Diego, last fall, honored sole practitioner Michael O'Halloran as the Outstanding Mediator for 1...
SAN FRANCISCO - Racial harassment against a black construction worker at San Francisco International Airport will cost Dillin...
LOS ANGELES - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has named litigator Robert B. Hubbell as the new managing partner of its 55-...
The situation involving John Rocker of the Atlanta Braves is the latest example of how sports disregard employment rights to s...
Civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman is asking the Los Angeles Superior Court to order the district attorney's and public defe...
Lawyers for Isuzu Motors Ltd. were upset over a spate of national and local publicity about their defamation suit against Cons...
In yet another effort to press for local control over regional legal aid office mergers, the Pasadena Bar Association has endo...