Court Broadens Public Access to Court Hearings
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a strong assertion of public access rights to court proceedings, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that...
Dismissal Likely In Suit Against Stun Belt Judge
By Michael Harris
A federal judge Monday indicated he plans to dismiss a $50 million civil rights lawsuit filed against a state judge who had a...
Task Force Recommends Pilot Project for Appellate Commissioners
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A special Judicial Council task force studying possible reforms in the state's appellate process is preparing...
Standing Firm
By Jean Guccione
It's been more than a decade since the California Judges Association was last led by an appellate justice. And Justice Willia...
County May Bail on Paying Verdict with Bond
By Martin Bergn
County officials appear ready to abandon an unusual proposal to pay off a huge police misconduct verdict through a bond sale,...
Lawyer Sues Stepmother for Malicious Prosecution
By Denise Levin
A Southern California family - whose financial feuds led to a series of secretly taped conversations and accusations of attem...
A Slimed Drudge Mists Up Speaking of Starr, Tripp
By Garry Abrams
In a moment that was jokingly interpreted as a right-wing conspiracy , "cybergossip" Matt Drudge, who in January divulged the...
Nurse Pleads Guilty to Robbery, Murder
By Mathew Heller
RIVERSIDE - A former nurse alleged to be Riverside County's first female serial killer has avoided a possible death penalty b...
Groups Want AG to Dissolve Unocal Over Alleged Abuses
By Vivien Lou Chen
SAN FRANCISCO - Relying on a seldom-used section of the California Corporations Code, a coalition of nearly 30 activists - ra...
Justices Seem Inclined to Exempt Church Hospitals From Bias Suits
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - To the relief of church-owned hospitals, the California Supreme Court strongly indicated on Thursday that it ...
Prosecutors Will Seek to Reinstate Death Sentence
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County prosecutors have made what is believed to be a rare decision to again seek capital punishment for a murder...
Tackling the Giants
By Anthony Aarons
Armed with $23 million and an aggressive plan to offer case law and codes from all 50 states, Kyle Parker is hoping to muscle...
Insiders Viewed As Best Bets for U.S. Attorney Job
By Martin Bergn
Four months after Sen. Dianne Feinstein interviewed five candidates for the next U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, the process re...
Customs Agent Pleads Guilty
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal customs agent whose acceptance of a kickback from a drug informant threw a major international drug...
Justices Appear Ready to Side With 9-Year-Old Boy Against MICRA Cap
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court indicated sympathy Wednesday for a 9-year-old boy who suffered a partially paral...
Jury Absolves Edison of Liability For Brushfire in Ventura County
By Tamara Koehler
SANTA BARBARA - A jury here on Wednesday found that although Southern California Edison was negligent for improper maintenanc...
Legal Secretary Sues Ex-Employer for Defamation
By Denise Levin
A legal secretary has sued her former employer, Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey, for defamation, claiming the Los...
Buried Alive
By Cheryl Romo
For Rafael Lopez, life lost its meaning two years ago when his children were killed, allegedly by their mother, during a cust...
Federal Judges Decry 'Overlong' Sentencing Rules
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - While reluctantly approving 95-year and 50-year prison terms imposed on two Fresno State football scholarship...
Attorneys Claim Malicious Prosecution
By Denise Levin
Two attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Liner, Yankelewitz, Sunshine & Regenstreif for malicious prosecution, claiming...
Jury Convicts Man in Riverside Deputies' Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury has convicted a Whitewater man of first-degree murder for ambushing and shooting two Riverside Co...
Sounds of Silence or Fighting Words
By Mathew Heller
RIVERSIDE - Despite suffering a near-fatal medical catastrophe in 1991 that left him with a speech defect, Patrick F. Dutton a...
In a Dozen Years, Judge Learned to Be Unfazed by Critics
By Robin Berger
VISTA - Franklin J. Mitchell Jr. expects to retire from the San Diego Superior Court at year's end. What's unexpected is that ...
McGwire Hits It Big, as the IRS Strikes Out
By Tom Orewyler
You can add the Internal Revenue Service to the list of people who have suddenly become baseball fans in St. Louis Cardinals'...
Law Balances Public Safety, Due Process
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Should prison officials be able to revoke an inmate's parole before he is released if they find he has a mental ...
To Sanction L.A. Lawyer, 9th Circuit Tosses Claim
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals court has sanctioned a Los Angeles lawyer by dismissing his client's job-injury cla...
Paul Mundie of S.F.'s Heller Ehrman Dies at 54
By Pamela Mc Clintock
SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Joseph Mundie, a shareholder of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, died in his sleep Tuesday night at ...
San Diego Judicial Ratings Scrutinized
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Three attorneys' groups have asked for review of the San Diego County Bar Association's judicial evaluations, say...
Fallout
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - The lawsuit of people who claim they became sick because of exposure to Hanford nuclear reservation emissions was na...
L.A. Firefighter Claims Complaint Led to Retaliation
By Lauren Blau
A 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department has sued his employer, claiming the department retaliated against him af...