Insurance Firm Loses Appeal in Holocaust Case
By Denise Levin
An appellate court has denied a European insurance company's appeal of a ruling that California has jurisdiction over bad-fai...
Suit Against Ex-Prosecutor Dismissed
By Denise Levin
A judge Wednesday dismissed a whistle-blower lawsuit against former Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark over crime-scene ph...
Educating the Schools
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Over several years on the bench in Santa Clara County's juvenile court, Superior Court Judge Read Ambler saw many ...
Headhunters Target Law Firm for Non-Payment
By Denise Levin
A Los Angeles law firm is accused of not paying a headhunter service that claims it is owed about $48,000 for placing two att...
Settlement Reached in Municipal Bond Case
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Local municipalities signing to dubious development projects and well-heeled municipal bond underwriters that...
Resurgent Judge Ito Behind Right-to-Consul Movement
By Jean Guccione
An avid world traveler, Superior Court Judge Lance A. Ito wondered what would happen if he got into trouble in a foreign coun...
Are Lawyers Society's Lepers? Developer Refuses Home Sale
By Anne La Jeunesse
After living in a rented home for several years, Tim and Kelly Liebaert of Bakersfield decided to carve out their own slice of...
Court Turns an Eye to Use of Hidden Cameras
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN DIEGO - The California Supreme Court took a hard look Wednesday at the increasing use of hidden cameras by the media, but...
Congressional Critic Accuses LSC of Fraud
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A recently released Legal Services Corporation audit has charged several of the programs the corporation funds, ...
Keating Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges
By Martin Bergn
Charles Keating Jr., the most notorious figure in the 1980s collapse of savings and loans, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal ...
Lawyer Faces Suit for Delays That Destroy Appeal
By Denise Levin
A law professor who lost her case against a developer after a secret tape recording of her was played at trial has sued the a...
Public Defender Fired for Failure Of Confidence
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Riverside County's Board of Supervisors fired Public Defender Margaret Spencer Tuesday in the midst of an investi...
Workers' Right to Sue HMOs Passes First Legislative Hurdle
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Revised to fend off federal pre-emption, a plan to give private-sector workers full rights to sue their health m...
MCI Sued for 'Fraud Area' Calling Restrictions
By Denise Levin
A family emergency last month prompted Darren Haylock to try to call Belize using his MCI WorldCom calling card from a friend...
Bar Critic Morrow Introduces Legislation Seen as Conciliatory
By Don De Benedictis
One of last year's strongest critics of the State Bar of California introduced reform and dues legislation this week, and the...
Recht Joins Mayer Brown to Build L.A. Government Group
By Stephanie Cahill
Philip Recht, deputy administrator of the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, announced Tuesday that he will ...
Jurist Hailed for Community Role
By Vick Jolly
SAN DIEGO - On the eve of a three-week break from the bench, Commissioner Sandra L. Berry steeled herself for what lay ahead:...
Childs Settlement Underscores the Systems Fragility
By Cheryl Romo
A $1.75 million settlement approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors for a little girl named Leah is thought to represent ...
Court Criticizes Same Crime, But Different Time
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In an important victory for deported aliens, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that sentenc...
Public Defender Claims She Was Sandbagged
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Riverside County Public Defender Margaret Spencer responded for the first time to allegations that her office sho...
Judge: State Lacks Jurisdiction in Insurance Case
By Denise Levin
A judge dismissed a Mexican insurance carrier from a Los Angeles Superior Court cross-complaint Monday on the ground that Cal...
Writer's Mighty Ducks Suit Remains Airborne
By Garry Abrams
A Los Angeles federal district judge has rejected the Walt Disney Co.'s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by a screenwriter who claims...
Wartime Evacuation
By Don De Benedictis
Among the casualties of hostilities in the former Yugoslavia is an American Bar Association-sponsored program to help improve...
Judicial Board Could Change Its Inclination
By Jean Guccione
As Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline and his lawyers prepare his defense for a public disciplinary hearing next month, it no...
Supreme Court Defines Limits of Right to Practice
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Ruling on an issue that arose during the Menendez brothers murder case, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Mond...
First DA Knew Best, Defense Claims
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Richard Rosenthal last year took the unusual step of disqualifying himself from a ...
Appeals Panel Cool to Prop. 209 Argument
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A strong attack on a San Francisco affirmative-action "outreach" program for companies owned by women and min...
Parents On Trial In Brutal Death Of Abused Child
By Matthew Heller
VICTORVILLE - Five-year-old Arthur Jennings Jr. weighed only 35 pounds when he was found dead at the bottom of a desert mine ...
Slash $51.5M Award, Tobacco Lawyer Urges Judge
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - The fate of a $51.5 million tobacco liability jury verdict against Philip Morris Inc., is in the hands of San...
Attorney Called a Driving Time Bomb
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County prosecutors have failed to have bail increased to $1 million for a personal injury attorney whom they desc...