Man Who Sent Racist E-Mail to Plead Guilty
By Martin Bergn
An Inland Empire man has agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor federal criminal civil rights violations stemming from hateful...
Awards in Deaths of Two Fathers Show Inequality
By Mathew Heller
VENTURA - Ron Johnson and Jason Hoskins were both fathers and they both died after a lethal brew of toxic gases and water eru...
Gold-Rush Aura Spurs a Surge in Internet Patents
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - Inventors and entrepreneurs are scurrying to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in record numbers to gain monopo...
Family Plans Service for Attorney Leslie C. Burg
By Denise Levin
Los Angeles attorney Leslie C. Burg's law practice was a reflection of the type of man he was - competent and quiet, say his ...
State's Child-Support System Subjected to Heavy Fire at Hearing Before Lawmakers
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Focusing extraordinary attention on the need to fix California's troubled child-support system, a coalition of l...
Utility Sued for Elder Abuse After Refusing to Relight Pilot
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A retired schoolteacher suffered elder abuse at the hands of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. when the utility ...
It's No Rainmaker's Paradise
By Cheryl Romo
A confident cockroach strolled back and forth across the worn carpet and past the hopelessly battered desk in attorney Jim Pr...
For the State Bar, It's Still Time to Face the Changes
By Don De Benedictis
Change will definitely be in the air when the State Bar Board of Governors meets this weekend in San Francisco. Whether any o...
Judge Dismisses Capping Charges Against Attorney
By Michael Harris
Lambasting a key prosecution witness as "completely incredible," a Los Angeles judge Wednesday took the rare step of dismissi...
Expert Witness Kicked Off Case; Are Lawyers Next?
By Denise Levin
If an expert witness in a product liability case consults with the plaintiff's lawyers and then is inadvertently retained by ...
L.A. Hosts Drug Court Training
By Anne La Jeunesse
Officials of the Los Angeles Drug Court hosted 45 judges, prosecutors and court coordinators from 10 states Tuesday at an int...
Man Sentenced for Threats to Garcetti Over Child Support
By Michael Harris
A North Hollywood man on Tuesday became the second person in about a year to be convicted of threatening to kill Los Angeles ...
Council Limited in Seeking Changes
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles City Council has extremely limited authority over changes it wants to make to the police inspector general po...
Judge Bars Use of Stun Belts in L.A. State Courts
By Martin Bergn
As he had earlier indicated he would, a federal judge Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction barring the use of controversia...
Rabbi's Alleged Affair Tests State's Shield for Counselors
By Mathew Heller
RIVERSIDE - Stricken with grief over the death of her brother in a plane crash, Myra Moldawsky says she received professional...
Clinton Nominates 17 to Bench, Including 12 Submitted Before
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - President Clinton resubmitted to the Senate on Tuesday 12 of the 21 federal judicial nominees who did not receiv...
Billiard Ban in The Wee Hours Is Put to Rest
By Anna Marie Stolley
A Riverside city ordinance restricting poolroom hours of operation violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment...
No-Merit Briefs Rejected as Ineffective Aid
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could have a broad impact in this state, a federal appellate court held Tuesday that a contr...
Prop. 65 Plaintiffs' Group Sues Attorney
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - As You Sow, one of the earliest and most prolific plaintiff groups pursuing cases under California's Propositi...
Holocaust Claim Will Be Heard in California Court
By Denise Levin
A California state court upheld its jurisdiction Monday over a bad-faith insurance case arising out of an Italian life insura...
Prosecutors Begin Ng Closing Arguments
By Rebecca Kuzins
SANTA ANA - Prosecutors on Monday laid out evidence they said would prove that a "bond of evil" existed between Charles Ng an...
Statistical Plan Is Ruled Out in Year 2000 Census Count
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration cannot use scientific sampling methods in the 2000 census to remedy a chronic populat...
Fraud Claims Against B of A Thrown Out
By Vivien Lou Chen
SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly five years of litigation against California's largest bank, a federal judge in San Francisco thr...
On the Heels of Victory, Happy Hoffman Praises Legal System
By Garry Abrams
Even before a federal judge awarded him $1.5 million last week, actor Dustin Hoffman was having a ball suing the pants off Lo...
Davis Says Counties Should Pay $100M in Child Support Penalties
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - With little fanfare, Gov. Gray Davis has proposed that the counties - not the state - pay $100 million in federa...
Hahn to Appeal Denial of Rentals Based on Religion
By Lauren Blau
Expressing concern that a recent decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would hamper the city's efforts to enfor...
Hughes Wins Right to Keep Pension Surplus
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a major victory to employers, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that a company may use the surp...
Kennard Praises Legal Efforts for Kids
By Cheryl Romo
Joyce Luther Kennard's message to battle-weary, often underpaid attorneys was simple and elegant: "Continue to bring hope to ...
Minority Rights In Election Plan To Be Decided
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Taking on a major issue under the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court announced Friday that it will consider wh...
S.F. Seeks Warnings on Smokeless Tobacco
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Efforts by San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne and a battery of private law firms to bring an unusual ca...