Diminishing Returns
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's surreal dog-mauling case captured the state's attention for much of last year, making media stars ...
Jewish, African-American Groups Need Each Other
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy," Jane Leavey's new book on the Dodger pitching legend, remi...
Stanford Trustee Fought for Environment
By Jenna Bordelon
LOS ANGELES - When Stanford Law School roommates Melvin Swift and Warren Christopher drove home from school in the Model A For...
Man Loses Civil Rights Suit Against Detectives
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Oscar Lee Morris, who was freed after 16 years in prison when his chief accuser issued a deathbed recantation, l...
Justices Oblige 9th and Enter Edison Suit
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A heavily lobbied California Supreme Court stepped into the middle of the energy crisis Wednesday, agreeing t...
Santa Clara Court Strikers Say They're Close to a Deal
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The union representing Santa Clara County court employees moved toward a settlement with management Wednesday in a...
Finding a Place in Your Heart for Foster Kids
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Amy Pellman & Jenny Weisz - Being a teen-ager in foster care all too often transla...
White House Gets Early Start Filling Bench
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The White House is gearing up to select five new federal trial judges in San Diego and one in Los Angeles by spr...
New Statute Adds Certification for Interlocutory Appeal to State Practice
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Donald M. Fenmore - Federal civil practice has long provided a remedy known as certificatio...
Insurance Suit Litigants Study U.S. Advisory On Overtime
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurance companies got a new boost from Uncle Sam in the oft-litigated issue of whether claims adjusters qua...
New Statute Adds Certification for Interlocutory Appeal to State Practice
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Donald M. Fenmore - Section 166.1 is a reasonably nonadversarial method of seeking prompt ap...
Trials Derail In Santa Clara as Employees Stay on Strike
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - The second day of the Santa Clara County court employees' strike was marked by chaos at the Hall of Justice, a judi...
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...