Double Shooting Expected to Go to Jury This Week
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury is expected to begin deliberating Wednesday to determine whether a Whitewater man intended to sh...
Dead or Alive, State Bar Would Be a Shadow of Its Former Self
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Although the State Bar reform-dues proposal was reported dead early Monday afternoon by Assemblyman Robert Hertzb...
Judge Discipline Bill Passes; Court Funding Is Stalled
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - In a surprising development, a two-bill package to increase state funding of trial courts by $113.1 million in f...
Employees Win Greater Right to Pursue Redress
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In a major shift in employment law, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that an employee may sue for wr...
All Conspiracy to Murder Held to Be First-Degree
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Following through on a warning it gave two years ago, the California Supreme Court declared Thursday that the...
Wilson to Restore Drug Court Funding
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Siding with prosecutors, Gov. Pete Wilson has insisted that new state funding to expand drug courts in Californi...
Deficit on Bankruptcy Bench Could Worsen With New Laws
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - New statistics show the number of personal bankruptcies continues to soar - particularly in Southern California....
Obstruction of Justice Is Knotty Charge to Tie Down
By Marty Berg
Want to avoid prosecution for obstruction of justice? You might want to refrain from sitting around your local donut shop cha...
Legal Eagle Placement Sued for Hawking Bar's Client Information
By Denise Levin
The Beverly Hills Bar Association has sued a former manager of its Personnel Referral Service for allegedly stealing confiden...
Shasta Judge Believes in 'Doing the Right Thing'
By Marsha Dorgan
REDDING - Sitting on the bench is more than just a job or a profession for James Ruggiero. It's a privilege. That's how the 45...
Ex-Case Manager Says Dedication Got Him the Boot
By Denise Levin
A former case manager for the now-defunct Chase & Miller claims in a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that he was wrong...
Deal Struck to Reform State Superfund Law
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Environmentalists, industry groups and state regulators have struck a deal on reforming California's Superfund l...
Retail Spin
By Michael Ueda
During a recent walk along Glendon Avenue in Westwood, an upscale area of Los Angeles adjacent to the UCLA campus, Allan Absh...
Sheriffs to Arm Themselves With 'Copcams'
By Lauren Blau
Sheriff's deputies on patrol in some areas will start wearing small video cameras in an attempt to provide neutral informatio...
Man, 67, Convicted in Bullet-Ricochet Death
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA --- Eleutero O'Campo looked like the picture of sympathy as he stood outside a courtroom Wednesday, eyeing the juro...
'Kline' Provision on Judicial Dissents Is Dropped From Reform Legislation
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - A bill to reform the Commission on Judicial Performance will be stripped of provisions that would restrict its p...
Murder Charges Dismissed Against Two Teens
By Michael Harris
After hearing an eyewitness testify Wednesday she had mistakenly identified two teen-agers as assailants in the stabbing deat...
Injured Woman Awarded $10M for Church Van Crash
By Denise Levin
A $10 million jury verdict has been awarded in Los Angeles Superior Court to a woman who was critically injured when the chur...
AG Hopeful Dashes to Victory In Hyphenation Ballot Battle
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - It's official: Dave Stirling has won his legal battle to put his full job title on the November ballot in his bi...
Judicial Discipline Board Will Look at Shocking Allegations
By Michael Harris
The California Commission on Judicial Performance announced Wednesday it has opened a formal investigation into the Long Beac...
Baker & McKenzie, Partner Found Not Very Appealing
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite pleas from trial attorneys, tort reformers and a prominent appellate lawyer, the California Supreme Co...
Appeals Court Not in Line With Roller Skaters
By Anna Marie Stolley
A roller skater who fell on an allegedly cracked alleyway is barred from suing the city for negligence, a state appeal panel ...
State Bar Pleads Poverty to Clip Lobbyist's Deal
By Don De Benedictis
In negotiations to reduce at least one of its contracts, the State Bar of California has claimed to be insolvent, according t...
Judge: Ex-Prosecutor's Comments 'Reckless'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Calling the public comments by former U.S. Attorney Michael Yamaguchi in the midst of a major drug trial "sho...
Jury Deadlocks in Eye-Swabbing Trial
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court jury, despite viewing videotapes of screaming protesters whose eyes were being swabbed with a...
Law Firm Partner Is Sued for Libel, Slander
By Denise Levin
A Superior Court libel and slander suit seeking $1 million in damages was filed Monday against Wayne S. Braveman, a law partne...
Powell's Passing
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, a courtly man who for 15 years played a pivotal role at the court'...
Poverty Lawyer Is Humbled by the Work Left Undone
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Claudia Smith stood knee deep in the squalor of the McGonigal migrant camp, where workers live when not working in...
Court Tightens Requirement for Insider Trading
By Philip Carizosa
Rejecting a government effort to make it easier to get insider trading convictions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...
State Fails to Track Lawsuits, Study Says
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - California's system for processing and tracking tort lawsuits against the state has undermined its ability to det...