Technology & Science
Is DNA the Key To Unlock Cells Of the Innocent?
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Two death row inmates convicted in brutal multiple murders in the 1980s insist they can prove their innocence th...
^^The Rodent^^ Lawyer Rsums Product of Creative Legal Writing Back in the good old days, that is, before you and I went to la...
Personal Injury & Torts
Government Gun Suits Are a Twisted Use of Tort Law
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By Gary Kleck If Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney general, has his way, more of the nation's gun manufacturers will f...
By Rudolph R. Loncke Seldom does a trial judge have reason to criticize, in writing, the opinion of an appellate court justic...
Party to Benefit Diversion Program The Long Beach Bar Foundation will host a Halloween party Thursday to benefit SHORTSTOP, a...
Judges Association Elects New Officers Judge Francis A. Gately of the Rio Hondo Municipal Court in El Monte has been elected ...
^^Tales & Trials^^ Character Development Demonstrations of personality traits are more persuasive than mere descriptions ...
Report Clarifies Investigator's Role The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office has issued a report clarifying a previous written...
Challenging Customs Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Two Import-Export Cases By Su Kohn Ross The 1999 U.S. Supreme Court sess...
Tort trends were the focus of the annual convention of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, which attracted 1,5...
SAN DIEGO - The mother of a former professional football player who died after he was shot 13 times by San Diego police offic...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Votes To Rehear Case Of Border Stops
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up the issue of what role ethnicity may play in legitimate Border Patrol traffic stops, a federal appe...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare antitrust challenge to the merger of two East Bay hospitals, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on...
Memorial services will be held today for civil trial attorney William R. Jackson of Collins, Collins, Muir & Traver, who ...
Five young men with slicked-back hair and edgy smiles appeared before the San Fernando Valley Juvenile Court Thursday. This w...
Memorial services will be held Wednesday for retired U.S. bankruptcy Judge John E. Bergener, who served in the Central Distri...
Constitutional Law
Judge Finds Ban On Unsolicited Flyers, Papers Unconstitutional
By Lauren Bartlett
A federal judge has granted a permanent injunction barring the city of Pasadena from enforcing an ordinance restricting door-...
In a major setback for big business, a federal appeals court Monday upheld the registration of Internet website names on a fi...
The only sworn witness to allegedly link former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson with the 1975 atte...
As consumer attorneys gathered inside The Venetian in Las Vegas to discuss how best to represent their clients in such matter...
Judges and Judiciary
Unification in Orange County Goes as Smooth as Clockwork
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Whether she is shuffling voluminous files, inputting mountains of records, or recording a seemingly endless strea...
DA's SLA Brief Will Not Be Sealed Los Angeles County prosecutors have changed their minds about sealing their preliminary tri...
By Edward J. Casey and Jose L. Huizar Following more than 18 months of discussions, weary negotiators for California's three ...
By William F. Capps Conventional wisdom used to be that lawyers left law firms for quality-of-life issues, not money. The hea...
You wouldn't expect to find any client of Latham & Watkins living on skid row. But one of Latham's corporate partners, Ma...
By Mark Goldowitz On Oct. 10, Gov. Gray Davis signed AB1675 into law. The legislation amends Section 425.16 of the Code of Ci...
Garcetti Escapes Injury in Accident Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti escaped injury last week when a flying ...
By Stacy L. Cohen Earlier this month, Kenneth Liang found himself juggling four tasks in one day. While four items on a to-do...
By Jeffrey Anderson Patients haggling with their health maintenance organizations sometimes benefit from a little name-droppi...
By Josh Grossberg Ask John Horn about alternative dispute resolution, and he starts talking about Robert De Niro. With a penc...