Serial Rapist Gets 538 Years
By Michael Harris
In one of the longest prison terms ever imposed in Los Angeles County, a third-strike serial rapist has been sentenced to 538...
Short-Circuited
By Chris Ford
To some observers, the recent demise of the viewing format for digital video disks known as Divx is a reminder that though po...
Convicted Attorney Accused of Cheating Friend
By Denise Levin
Former Santa Monica attorney James P. Tierney, who was convicted earlier this year in a scheme to hide valuable paintings and...
Deaths of Gilberania and Elijah Reveal Dangers of Foster Care
By Cheryl Romo
She wore a fancy pink lace dress and a matching bonnet. Her long, curly eyelashes nearly touched the tops of her eyelids. The...
Conflicts and Lax Oversight Permeated Foster Agencies
By Cheryl Romo
In 1996, Grace Home for Waiting Children, a foster family agency founded three years earlier by former county employees, was ...
Foster Agencies Largely Have a Good Reputation
By Cheryl Romo
Los Angeles County contracts with about 80 foster family agencies, which operate more than 5,300 foster homes for children wh...
Plaintiffs Join Insurer to Back Bad-Faith Law
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The plaintiffs' bar has reached a key agreement with a major insurer on legislation to restore a negligence vict...
Lawmakers Slow To Crack Down On Rogue Police
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Eight years after the videotaped beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers shocked the nation, polic...
Oil Companies Must Face Suits Over Prop. 65
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A massive Proposition 65 case billed as one of the largest environmental lawsuits in state history has been a...
Judges Pick Ventura Firm for Conflict Defense
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - Ventura County's judges have rejected a low bid from an out-of-county law firm and voted to continue contracting wi...
S.F. Judge Recuses Self in Class Action Regarding BofA
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has recused himself from presiding over an attorney fee dispute in a contentious class-...
Colorado Officials Search for Ways to Prevent Additional School Shootings
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - At a gathering of officials from states that have been affected by recent youth violence, the drive to do something ...
Five Nominees To Federal Bench Leave Committee
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced to the full Senate the federal bench nomination of Los Angel...
Services Set for Former Torrance City Attorney
By Anne La Jeunesse
Services will be held today for retired Torrance City Attorney Stanley Edward Remelmeyer, who died Saturday of a stroke. He w...
Physician Gets Probation in Money-Laundering Case
By Michael Harris
Even though prosecutors argued that physician David G. Gardner had been convicted in the largest money-laundering case ever f...
Patent Chief Vows Application Reforms
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's chief patent and trademark official promised Thursday to shave the time it takes to process pate...
Uncollectible Judgment Leads to Suit Against Firm
By Denise Levin
A production company claims in a $10 million lawsuit that an attorney at the Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell Silberberg &...
Tenants Apply Rare Statute to Battle Slumlord
By Lauren Bartlett
Applying a rarely used statute to clean up slum housing, renters at a Hollywood apartment building filed a lawsuit Thursday a...
Details on Bank Plot Revealed
By Patricia Jacobus And John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - An alleged plot by a French bank to illegally obtain billions of dollars by deceiving California insurance re...
Airport Authority Has 60 Days to Pay $60M
By Anne La Jeunesse
Representatives of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority hurriedly left Los Angeles Superior Court in Burbank Thurs...
State's Rights Advocates See Another Case Go to High Court
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - One day after greatly strengthening the states' immunity from suits in both state and federal courts, the Suprem...
Attorney Finds Earthly Laws No Match for Spiritual Rites
By Claudia Rosenbaum
SAN FRANCISCO - Mary Gemma O'Keeffe was 19 when she entered the convent. Her only career decisions, she thought, would be whe...
Breyer Noted for Wit, Charm and Bench Presence
By Mark Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Echoes of his early days as a lawyer surfaced as Charles R. Breyer reflected on the recent impeachment trial ...
Commissioner Can Sue Over Political Ouster
By Don De Benedictis
A former Riverside Municipal Court commissioner can pursue his federal civil rights suit against two judges who he claims pus...
Ruling Portends Shaky Future For Covert News-Gathering
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing to curb controversial news media practices, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the A...
Services Set for Diane Sullivan, San Diego Family Law Expert
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Services will be held today for Diane Sullivan, family lawyer and member of San Diego's self-proclaimed "Old Girls" group, an...
Discipline Panel Votes on Judges Is Made Public
By Jean Guccione
Bowing to a court ruling that it must reveal its confidential voting records, the Commission on Judicial Performance announce...
DA Jumps at Skid Row Murder Plea
By Michael Harris
As they recently prepared to take a 16-year-old homicide case to trial, Los Angeles County prosecutors say they were confiden...
Patent Bar Unhappy With High Court Decision
By Chris Ford
In narrowing the conditions under which states can be sued against their will in federal court, the U.S. Supreme Court appear...
Allen Matkins in S.F. Attracts Lindbergh Porter
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Lindbergh Porter Jr., a partner at Littler Mendelson and immediate past president of the Bar Association of S...