Perceived Inequality
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan is facing criticism over staff shuffling that some say has reduced the number of wome...
Commissioner Gets Davis Nod for Bench
By Matthew Heller
SIMI VALLEY - After serving only a couple of months as a court commissioner, William Q. Liebmann was appointed Tuesday to a Su...
County Delays Newhall Ranch
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to delay approval of the Newhall Ranch project, instru...
Celebrities Don't Impress Judge
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A powerful talent agent clashed with Judge Elden S. Fox one day last month and discovered who holds the power at...
Self-Canceling Installment Note Can Be Powerful Planning Tool
By Columnist
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Bruce Givner - Parents commonly use self-canceling installment notes to transfer property to t...
Trevor Law Group Accuses Bar of Politics
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Three Beverly Hills attorneys accused of unethical use of the state's unfair-competition law have gone on the at...
Bar Urges Law Firms to Pay for Jury Service
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Bar Association officials were a little embarrassed last year, after they decided to encourag...
Ruling Stings Death Row Inmates
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Ruling in the case of a California death-row inmate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday continued its strict interpreta...
Grossly Excessive Sentences Serve No Rational Purpose
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - Sentences that are longer in years than a human can actually live are emblematic of t...
Former Medi-Pot Officials Agree to Guilty Plea
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - With the forfeiture of the Cannabis Resource Center's $1.2 million building and other assets hanging in the bala...
Online Law Journal Is Born in Santa Clara
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University School of Law is launching the first law journal available exclusively online. While a half-...
Messenger of Historical Literacy Visits the Circuit
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - During a small luncheon gathering last week at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, historian David McCullou...
DCA Goes Beyond Jury in Ruling for Disability Plaintiff
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that an East Bay cancer patient who won a $1.5 million fraud judgment ag...
Supervisors Give Green Light to Airport Suit
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors Tuesday backed an ambitious lawsuit by City Attorney Dennis Herrera against contract...
George Pleads With Lawmakers for Funds
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - California's courts are being hurt by the state's budget crisis, and lawmakers must act quickly to prevent furthe...
Late Report
By Spare 2
PRIESTS CHARGED - Two former Catholic priests and an ex-seminarian were charged late Tuesday with multiple counts of child mol...
Saddam Should Be Prosecuted, Attorneys Say
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - After the Gulf War, the first President Bush pledged to prosecute Saddam Hussein for war crimes. But he never fo...
DAILY DEALS -- Ventura County
By Jack Briggs
MOORPARK - Simi Valley Harley-Davidson leased 19,000 square feet of retail space at 6190 Condor Drive from J&L Investment...
Bush Should Prosecute Saddam, Lawyers Say
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - After the Gulf War, the first President Bush pledged to prosecute Saddam Hussein for war crimes. But he never f...
Before It Starts
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Angela M. Bradstreet and Gowon Song - In 1998, two U.S. Supreme Court cases, Burlington Industries v. Ell...
Contesting Jurisdiction Can Be Good Way to Avoid Costly Suit
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Allison S.Y. Chang - For nonresident multinational holding companies with a subsidiary o...
Measure Would Needlessly Complicate Custody Matters
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It appears that Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-L.A., is busy once again figuring out ways to further...
Cops' Motions Stress Constitution
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for four of five San Francisco police officers charged with obstruction of justice launched their att...
Cuts Imperil State's Witness Protection Program
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The California Witness Protection Program is essential for prosecuting gang killings and should continue to rece...
Thelen Chooses N.Y. Lawyer as Chairman
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Igoe Jr., a former Reid & Priest chairman who led the New York firm's merger with San Francisco's ...
Justices Take on Police Authority, Other Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to take another look at the authority of police officers who have stopped a vehic...
Limit on Abortion Clinic Injunction Rules
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Injunctions aren't one size fits all. In a just-published ruling, a state appellate court has ruled that an i...
Justice's Estranged Wife Prevails in Disqualification
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Ethics isn't an abstraction for Justice Ignazio Ruvolo, of San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal. It's ...
L.A.'s the Place for Constitutionally Aggrieved, Litigious Protesters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - How will the war against Iraq ultimately play out on the streets of America? More parochially, how wi...
Citizens' Group Sues to Block Costco Store
By Mark Cromer
LA HABRA - Residents hoping to block big-box retailer Costco from building a new store here have taken their fight to court, f...