O.C. Seeks Additional Money From the State
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - Orange County judges will find out Friday whether or not they will be getting additional money from the Judicial ...
Symington Prosecutor to Move to Bay Area Office
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal prosecutor who successfully handled the financial fraud case against former Arizona Gov. John Fif...
Coliseum Claims Scam by Management Company
By Denise Levin
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and soccer promoters have sued the company that manages the Coliseum, claiming t...
ACCA Conference Will Focus On Law, Electronic Media
By Mary Micheletti
Electronic media -- and how it relates to the law -- is an inescapable issue in the legal profession. "The question of develop...
Teen Program Seeks to End Cycle of Domestic Violence
By Anne La Jeunesse
The judge grilled "Robert," asking the teen-ager why he had shoved his girlfriend from his car onto a residential street, then...
In Unusual Move, Justices Will Hold Hearing on Bar Discipline
By Don De Benedictis
The state Supreme Court will hold an unusual, afternoon-long public hearing next month on whether and how it might step in to ...
High Court Lets Anti-Gay Rights Measure Stand
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In an action likely to cause widespread confusion and debate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided not to review ...
ACLU Seeks Information About Traffic Stops
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties announced Tuesday that it has set up a stat...
Judge Orders Tribes to Shut Down Casinos
By Martin Bergn
As he earlier said he would do, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Tuesday ordered nine Indian tribes to shut down their ca...
Garcetti Defends Family Support Effort
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday defended his beleaguered family support division in the wake of a h...
Hell on Wheels
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - Kevin Williams' fate was sealed the day his feet left the wooden swimming platform floating atop a chilly South Caro...
The Feathers Are Flying
By Mathew Heller
APPLE VALLEY - You might not think that a High Desert community with a distinctly rural atmosphere would have problems dealing...
DA Wants New Crackdown on Jury Scofflaws
By Michael Harris
In pushing for the enactment of a one-day, one-trial jury service system in Los Angeles County under a new state law, District...
Medical Marijuana Activist Sues Dan Lungren
By Denise Levin
A medical marijuana activist, AIDS patient and defendant of federal drug charges sued California Attorney General Dan Lungren...
Panel Reverses Extradition for IRA Escapees
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has overturned a controversial extradition order for three escaped Irish Republican A...
Juvenile Court Confidentiality Policy to Shift
By Cheryl Romo
In response to growing criticism from child advocates and the media, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court is...
Ground Broken for Federal Courthouse
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Ground Broken For Federal Court RIVERSIDE - Already home to more than half a dozen courts, Riverside will soon add a U.S. Dist...
Airport Conversion Foes Sue O.C. Seeking Return of Legal Fees
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - A coalition that opposes a planned airport at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station has sued Orange County, allegi...
Oakland Judge Rules Car Seizure Law Constitutional
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - In a win for Oakland's trailblazing legal effort to curtail prostitution and drug sales by seizing customers'...
Congress Approves Copyright Legislation
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - With time running out on the congressional session and all eyes focused on impeachment, Congress has passed seve...
Oil Company Charged in Gasoline Scam
By Michael D. Harris
In what apparently is the first high-tech consumer fraud case of its kind in the nation, prosecutors announced Thursday they ...
Man Sues DMV to Avoid the 'Mark of the Beast'
By Denise Levin
A sheriff's reserve lieutenant has filed suit against the Department of Motor Vehicles on religious grounds, claiming the age...
After 41 Months of Suspense, Fletcher Gets 9th Circuit Post
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A 41-month wait ended Thursday for Boalt Hall professor William Fletcher, when the Senate voted 57-41 to confirm...
Charges of Dirty Tricks Fly in Investigation of Landfill Project
By Mathew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - The allegations seem like something out of an industrial espionage thriller, complete with stolen computer d...
Rehearing Set After Defendant Serves 16 Years
By Anna Marie Stolley
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a defense lawyer's preparation for a murder trial - a cursory revie...
Workers' Wage Claims May Be Taken to Court
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for thousands of union workers at the Albertson's grocery chain, a federal appeals court ruled T...
Gym, Used as Juvenile Dorm, Closed
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Housing facilities for juvenile detainees in Riverside County - already severely overburdened - were dealt a furt...
Judge Gives Go-Ahead to Pregnancy-Related Suit
By Denise Levin
A judge on Friday refused to throw out the bulk of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former partner of the entertainment la...
Top Level Managers Leaving Patent Office
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - The departures of high-level officials at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reflect continuing instability at t...
Local Bar Leaders Table Plans for a Voluntary Bar
By Don De Benedictis
MONTEREY - The group of local bar leaders who have struggled for months to design a statewide voluntary bar association to fi...