WASHINGTON - Rejecting a balancing test proposed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court on Monday unanim...
Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy's lawyer said Monday the jurist is confident once prosecutors interview him, t...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Panel Suggests Settlement of Quadriplegics Suit
By Lauren Blau
Changes in the medical records of a patient who apparently suffered permanent paralysis after treatment at a Los Angeles coun...
Quadrupling its Silicon Valley presence in one fell swoop - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has acquired Palo Alto...
Eight years ago, the California legislature passed a law providing expansive remedies to elderly and disabled individuals who...
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles Friday indicted a North Carolina man on securities fraud charges for posting a fabricated...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court: Salesmen Cannot Expect Privacy During Cafe Conversation
By Anna Marie Stolley
Siding with the news media in the ongoing battle over hidden cameras, a state appeal panel has refused to allow two salesmen ...
In a ruling that left both sides claiming victory, a U.S. district judge has upheld a jury's verdict on liability in an antit...
SACRAMENTO - Criticized by legislative investigators and Attorney General Bill Lockyer for shoddy tracking of the costs of la...
Los Angeles attorney John Nyahan of Chadbourne & Parke has been accepted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Law...
PHOENIX - Home is where the heart is. To prove that adage, the legal community in Phoenix is putting its heart and soul, not ...
Kameron Justin Demery, 21/2, was a sweet-faced little guy who loved rubber balls and liked to play in the mud. "He was mellow...
Stanley D. Myers was a religious fundamentalist who in 1965 summoned his pastor to bless the new Tallmadge, Ohio, industrial ...
In a surprisingly blunt speech, Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline of San Francisco has sharply criticized the commission tha...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY ROADSIDE DRIVE, AGOURA HILLS SQ.FT.: 32,000, SHOPPING CENTER PRINCIPALS' BROKER: CHRISTOPHER AND LANE SCHW...
Judges and Judiciary
Great Escape Defendants Say They Are Innocent of Charges
By Michael Harris
Attorneys for a retired judge and a bailiff Thursday previewed their defense to charges the pair tried to cover up a prisoner...
In celebration of Law Day, the Barristers of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other local bar groups will provide f...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County woman has settled her lawsuit against a rabbi whom she accused of luring her into a sexual rel...
SAN FRANCISCO - The EEOC on Thursday brought a rare lawsuit against a branch of state government, accusing the California Env...
The Norwalk branch of Los Angeles Superior Court is now accepting documents filed via fax, the court has announced. The servi...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Wading into a battle between a desert water district and its customers, a judge has ruled that officials ca...
A 22-year-old man born without a lower left leg but, who with the use of a prosthesis passed physical requirements to enroll ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Over the objections of 11 trial courts, including those of Los Angeles, the state Judicial Council voted Thur...
Environmental
MTBE May Disappear From States Gas Tanks, But Oil Company Liability Is Not Going Away
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - California's failed experiment with MTBE appears unlikely to end with the chemical's gradual elimination from...
A veteran inspector in a highly touted state agency devoted to cracking down on labor abuses in the garment industry was indi...
Movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg has already received two large payments from the Walt Disney Co. as part of the agreement ...
Public Interest
L.A. Lawyers Endorse Bar Reform And Legal Services Legislation
By Don De Benedictis
Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees simultaneously gave both grumbling and wholehearted support to pending legislatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fighting in Vietnam changed attorney Charles E. Patterson's life for the better, he says, by destroying any i...
WASHINGTON - After several days of vigorous debate, Senate Democrats used parliamentary devices Thursday to block a vote on a...
A motorist injured while driving his employer's uninsured vehicle is not barred under a 1996 initiative from recovering for p...