SAN JOSE - In a potentially important legal victory for online brokerages, a Santa Clara County judge has denied a request by...
VICTORVILLE - A man who claimed to have unwittingly assisted a suicide by handing a neighbor a loaded rifle was sentenced Mon...
Wayne Doss, the head of Los Angeles County's child support agency, was selected that department's 1998 prosecutor of the year...
SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the seminal Bay Area rock band, the Grateful Dead, had perhaps the music industry's most lenient...
An attorney's statement on a news program that a financial services company cheated the elderly out of money was protected sp...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Santa Clara district attorney has filed felony charges against Steven Y. Lee, a former associate at Wilso...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco organization that helps women find their way out of prostitution received a $1,000 "Mother's ...
REDLANDS - The subpoena itself was unusual enough, a request by defendants in a major real estate fraud case for correspondenc...
Delivering a slashing attack on Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner, attorney Bert Fields on Monday accused the head of t...
Criminal
Orange County Counselors Said To Have Conflict
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LAGUNA NIGUEL - When Costa Mesa resident Bethany Peca entered a drug counseling class at the Center for Creative Alternatives...
A closely divided state Supreme Court held Monday that an insurance company, sued for bad-faith failure to settle a policyhol...
Negotiations between Gov. Gray Davis and California Indian tribes over the regulation of Indian casinos are heating up, if th...
With the advent of companies like E*trade and Charles Schwab online, even an unsophisticated investor can buy and sell shares...
In a ruling that may quell a controversy that pitted state court against religious law, a Beverly Hills Municipal Court judge...
SAN JOSE - Two class action attorneys who specialize in shareholder lawsuits scored a major victory last week in their bitter...
SAN DIEGO - Jury selection is scheduled to begin here today in a trial that has aroused widespread interest in Great Britain ...
The estate of a man who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies has filed a $2 million claim against Los Angeles County. The c...
Joe Ball listened with growing impatience as an appellate attorney struggled to convince the state's highest court that a con...
Judges and Judiciary
PD Is Outspoken On Death Penalty And Rehabilitation
By Erik Cummins
SANTA ROSA - Like many of his colleagues representing indigent clients, Louis Haffner staunchly defends the rights of the acc...
A notorious, long-running Hollywood legal feud between two tough guy actors who probably would have felt more at ease on moto...
RIVERSIDE - Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask announced Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed against...
Juvenile
Riverside Grabs Grant San Bernardino Passes On
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino's Board of Supervisors have decided not to approve a $5 million state Board of Corrections gra...
San Francisco Superior Court Judge James J. McBride was arraigned Thursday morning by a visiting judge in Domestic Violence C...
SAN JOSE - The authors of a report outlining new rules to protect famous trademarks in the online world ducked a lot of contr...
RIVERSIDE - After nearly five years of litigation, relatives of the woman at the center of the so-called Riverside mystery fu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Since 1996, the Dow Jones industrial average has climbed by an impressive 55 percent to reach its recent 10,0...
SAN DIEGO - The case against two servicemen accused of beating to death an Ecuadorian hotel clerk came to a close Thursday wh...
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office Thursday all but dismissed a recommendation by the U.S. Commission on Civil...
Media
Justices Inclined to Recognize Right of Access to Civil Trials
By Philip Carrizosa
The California Supreme Court strongly hinted Thursday that it will grant the news media and the public a right to gain access...
Personal Injury & Torts
Cop Wounded in Bank Shootout Cannot Sue Gun Manufacturers
By Denise Levin
A judge has ruled that a Los Angeles police officer critically wounded in the North Hollywood shootout cannot sue the makers ...