Forensic Clinic Aids Rape Investigations
By Anne La Jeunesse
Cutting-edge technology at a new forensic clinic at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center's Rape Treatment Center will greatly aid...
Court to Review Exemptions For Churches
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that will test how far government can go to accommodate religion, the California Supreme Court agre...
Sweeping Change Is Proposed for Workers Comp
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Increased benefits for workers, new opportunities for arbitration and larger penalties for uninsured employers a...
Ex-Prosecutor Ponders Run Against S.F. DA
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor, who resigned in anger two years ago over the settlement of San Francisco's biggest envir...
Lawsuit Filed Over Officers Suicide
By Denise Levin
Apparently despondent over the end of a love affair with her supervisor, 25-year-old Los Angeles police officer Nadine Arrang...
Proposals Issued for Copyrights for Education
By Chris Ford
Seeking to maximize the educational potential of the Internet, the U.S. Copyright Office on Tuesday recommended that Congress...
Jurors Taken for a Free Ride To All San Diego Courthouses
By Martin Kruming
Since early May, jurors have had a free ride to all courthouses in San Diego thanks to an innovative new program involving Su...
Jury Finds Ex-Black Panther Liable in Memorabilia Flap
By Patricia Jocobus
A bitter civil court dispute between Oakland City Council candidate David Hilliard and another former Black Panther over righ...
Policing the Jailhouse Door
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - One of Steve White's early assignments as a young Sacramento County deputy district attorney in the 1970s was to...
Ruling Spotlights Students Who Are Claiming Abuse
By Patricia Jocobus
Sitting behind a lawyer's large desk Tuesday and facing reporters and three television cameras, the 10-year-old boy haltingly...
Suits Against Gun Industry Focus On Business Practices
By Lauren Blau
Working toward creating a statewide effort, Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the gun i...
Bid to Lift MICRA Cap Halted for Now
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Faced with a widespread revolt in the Assembly Democratic caucus, Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday at leas...
Property Owners Win Jury Trial Right in Takings Suits
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In an important victory for targets of land-use regulations, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that propert...
Hahn Is Set to Announce Gun Suit
By Lauren Blau
After months of reviewing California laws to find the best way to attack gun manufacturers, Los Angeles City Attorney James K....
Extortion Claim Against Firm Dropped, Lawyer Says
By Denise Levin
A lawsuit in which a businessman claimed the Irvine law firm of Callahan & Blaine attempted to extort money from him appa...
Lawyer Files Suit Against Oscar Gate-Crasher
By Denise Levin
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences attorney David W. Quinto has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a come...
Law to Lift Juvenile Courts Secrecy Gets Mixed Response
By Cheryl Romo
Amid growing public momentum to pierce the veil of silence and secrecy that shrouds the state's juvenile courts, more than 30...
Retired Officer Sues Los Angeles Over North Hollywood Shoot-Out
By Lauren Blau
A retired Los Angeles police officer who had been a defendant in lawsuits stemming from the North Hollywood shoot-out has sue...
Quest Yields a Look at Failed System
By Cheryl Romo
After a series of deaths in 1992 appeared to point to a gaping hole in the safety net of Sacramento County's child welfare sy...
Wider Probe of Orange County Center Sought
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LAGUNA NIGUEL - An Orange County Superior Court judge suggested Monday that a grand jury investigation be undertaken into the...
Students Can Sue for Sex Harassment
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, Monday that school systems may be sued for damages under Title IX of the Education...
Keep 9th Circuit Together, Chief Judge Urges
By Martin Bergn
Labeling it a "solution looking for a problem," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' chief judge Monday urged a gathering o...
Senate Parades Its Grandeur And Its Greed
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - On one day last week, with two votes on two different bills, the U.S. Senate first exhibited the prevailing - if...
9th Circuit Rules Municipalities Liable for Retaliatory Motives
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled that municipalities may be held liable for firing of employees if the insti...
Glendales Ex-Officio City Prosecutor Dies
By E Freudenthal
William Roy Dickerson, former deputy city attorney and ex-officio city prosecutor of Glendale, has died at his Beverly Hills ...
Intellectual Gold Mine
By Chris Ford
In their quest to make efficient use of investments in research and development, corporations are looking for new ways to ben...
Davis Ponders Hufstedler for Prop. 187 Role
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis reportedly has proposed to retain former federal appeals court judge Shirley Hufstedler as his c...
Gentlemans Club Tries Investors Patience
By Anne La Jeunesse
Apparently, it was not a gentleman's agreement. A Pasadena attorney who claims he was bilked out of a $25,000 investment in a...
Personal Touch
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Julie Tang of domestic violence court says essentially the same thing to each of the 25 defendants who ...
Club Involved in Anti-Date-Rape Drug Effort Is Site of Overdoses
By Michael Harris
In an embarrassing episode, four men and a woman have overdosed on a date rape drug at a Hollywood nightclub that is a partne...