Mum's the Word on Public Campuses
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Richard P. McKee - On public-school campuses today, intolerance toward dissenting views is becoming the norm...
4 Million Poor in State Lack Access to Lawyers
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - More than 4 million Californians living in poverty lack access to a lawyer, a new report from the California Com...
Court Bars Treatment For Driver on Drugs
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - In an issue that will soon before the California Supreme Court, an appeals court ruled Tuesday that a drug defen...
Judge Will OK Settlement of Overtime Suit
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge James P. Gray is scheduled to formally approve a $27.5 million binding arbitr...
Case of Slain DA Will Pit Opposite Styles
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BAKERSFIELD - The attorney defending the man accused of brutally murdering a Kern County district attorney is known to talk to...
Judge Stays Autopsy of Man Shot by Police
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A federal judge Tuesday stayed the autopsy of a man shot and killed by Riverside police officers when a civil righ...
They Came for the Muslims, and I Didn't Speak Up
Forum Column - By Stephen Rohde - First they came for the Muslims, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim. The USA PA...
Mayer Brown Welcomes Hertzberg
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - State Assembly Speaker Emeritus Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, has agreed to join the Los Angeles office of Chica...
'Gonzales' May Increase, Rather Than Reduce, Probate Litigation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The results in Gonzales promise to increase the opport...
Senate OKs Californians for Federal Benches
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday struggled to wrap up business for the year during its lame-duck session, arguing over creat...
Mum's the Word on Public Campuses
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Richard P. McKee - On public-school campuses today, intolerance toward dissenting views is becoming the norm...
'Gonzales' May Increase, Rather Than Reduce, Probate Litigation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The results in Gonzales promise to increase the...
How Could This Happen?
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In the United States, at least 115 inmates have been freed through DNA testing, and mounting evidence from these...
Van Dam Wasn't Slain At Home, DA Argues
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, convicted of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Da...
Panel Supports Citation of Unpublished Rulings
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate lawyers could begin citing unpublished decisions for their persuasive value in the next few years if...
This Just In: Cops Look for Murder Suspects at Death Row Records
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - As a resident of Southern California, I sometimes have a hard time telling the difference between rea...
CAOC Votes To Boycott Leading Firm Of Arbitrators
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The Consumer Attorneys of California, asserting that binding arbitration agreements are eroding jury trial ri...
Justices Will Hear Disabilities Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In 1995, Michael J. Hason, a New York doctor who now lives in Florida, applied for a license to practice medicine...
Downward-Sentencing Dilemma
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Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - To understand why the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the most-reversed circuit, one...
Informal Jurist Keeps Eye on Time
By Jenna Bordelon
CHATSWORTH - "In the event of a bomb threat, use the bomb threat checklist," the green-and-white sign in Commissioner Richard ...
PG&E Reorganization On the Stand
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - California utility regulators opened their defense Monday of a historic plan to reorganize the bankrupt Pacif...
Holocaust Litigation Merits Honor
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Southern California attorneys William Shernoff and Lisa Stern received the Consumer Attorneys of California's fi...
Lawyer Pleads No Contest to Felonies
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Malibu lawyer pleaded no contest Monday to two felony counts of grand theft for allegedly stealing $120,000 fr...
Court Thwarts Coalition's Efforts to Aid Detainees
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A coalition of clergy, lawyers and professors do not have enough connection to the 590 war prisoners held at Cam...
Panel OKs Plan to Cite Unpublished Decisions
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal rules committee has overwhelmingly recommended a controversial rule that would permit lawyers to ci...
High Court Tackles Campaign Finance, Again
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it again will delve into the knotty issue of campaign finance, looking...
Court Approves Domestic Spying
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won a major legal battle Monday when a special appellate court in its first published opi...
Lawyers Want Halt in IQ Tests
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have been asked to halt court-ordered mental health screening on death row while defen...
Santa Clara Pay Dispute Shuts Courts
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - Hundreds of Santa Clara County court employees walked off their jobs Monday, effectively shutting down the legal sy...
9th Circuit Abandons Higher Standard for Some Pleadings
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Galbraith overturned a longstanding principle requiring a "heigh...