Walker to Stay On Humboldt Pepper-Spray Case in Eureka
By Dennis Pfaff
EUREKA - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will continue to handle the police brutality case brought by antilogging protesters...
Group Against Death Penalty Lauds Heroes
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Mexican President Vicente Fox and former Illinois Gov. George Ryan were honored Tuesday night in Beverly Hills f...
Nevada Need Not Defer to California Law, Court Says
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that state courts are not required to give full weight to the laws ...
Court Signals Speech Protection
By David Pike
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it likely will protect some types of corporate communications under the ...
RV Maker Faces Suit in Riverside
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury will decide whether the nation's leading recreational vehicle manufacturer is liable for the deat...
Parents Can Sue School for Not Preventing Harm
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The owners of a Costa Mesa preschool could be liable for damages for the murders of two children by a man who de...
BUTTS Program Will Reveal Naked Truth, Cut Airport Security Delays
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Fly naked. Work naked. To ensure a more perfect war on terrorism, the federal government must quit ta...
Closing of Youth Shelter Marks End of an Era
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - All that is left of the children now are their belongings - hundreds of bags stacked to the ceiling in spots and...
Taking on Timber
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Gallegos knew he was taking a political risk by going after Humboldt County timber giant Pacific Lumber ...
'Fix-It Bill' Mandates New Way Of Handling Construction Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Robert C. Barnes - SB800, known as the "Fix-It Bill," imposes an ambitious new scheme for...
Screening Speech
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Guylyn R. Cummins - The lightning growth of the Internet has created legal issues in cyberspace that potenti...
Hallinan: No Conspiracy Charges
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan confirmed Tuesday that he will not challenge a judge's ruling earlier this...
Court Reinstates Punitive Damages
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court Tuesday upheld a $1.15 million wrongful-termination award and reinstated a $1.15 million...
Activists on 'No-Fly' List Sue FBI
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Two peace activists and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the FBI and other government ag...
Mittelstaedt Opening Jones Day Office
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Mittelstaedt, a lead trial counsel for ChevronTexaco, resigned Tuesday from Pillsbury Winthrop after 2...
'Employee' Definition May Bar Some Lawsuits
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Ruling on a suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Supreme Court Tuesday adopted a definition of "em...
Bill Allowing Disclosures To Assembly
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - California attorneys may join colleagues in 37 other states who are allowed to disclose a client's plans to kill...
Court Frowns on Claims Ballooning Into Class Arbitration
By David Pike
WASHINGTON -Supreme Court justices were highly skeptical Tuesday of allowing individual claims in arbitration to expand into a...
Panel Rejects Plan to Toughen Porn Law
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' effort to bring the state's child pornography law covering posses...
Ryan to State: Slow Down the Death Penalty
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan said Tuesday that California should temporarily halt executions and appoint a c...
Adachi Finds 3,500 Police Files Missing From Courts
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Tuesday that in recent years police withheld many more potential officer-mis...
Spider-Man Escapes Web of Secrecy, Thanks to Public-Access Ruling
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Spider-Man, the comic-book character that has spun box-office gold for Hollywood's truly needy, has b...
San Bernardino Neglected Kids, Lawsuit Claims
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES -Three Los Angeles-based law firms have filed a federal class action against San Bernardino County alleging that t...
Judge Rules the Feds Trump in Securities
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant blow to California's tough new ethical standards, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jo...
Davis Wright Snaps Up 10 From Kay & Boose
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Seattle's Davis Wright Tremaine has expanded its media and intellectual property practices with the addition of ...
Filibuster Chips Away at Rule of Law
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The filibuster being waged by Senate Democrats against one of President George W. Bush's e...
Jurist Axes Case for Unsigned Complaint
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A jurist Monday threw out criminal charges against a man who plans to sue over his beating by two Inglewood poli...
Court Faults Davis Parole Reversal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Monday criticized a parole reversal by Gov. Gray Davis, finding that the governor had "f...
Limits Ordered on Data in Filings
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has issued a revised general order, number 53, requiring lawyers to l...
Foreign Rules Could Affect Option Exchange Program
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Edward D. Burmeister and Robert G. Marshall II - For U.S. multinationals planning to imp...