Judge: Utility Can't Ignore Initiative
By Matthew Heller
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Wading into a battle between a desert water district and its customers, a judge has ruled that officials ca...
Disabled Candidate Sues LAPD
By Lauren Blau
A 22-year-old man born without a lower left leg but, who with the use of a prosthesis passed physical requirements to enroll ...
Judicial Council Endorses New Jury Service Law
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Over the objections of 11 trial courts, including those of Los Angeles, the state Judicial Council voted Thur...
MTBE May Disappear From States Gas Tanks, But Oil Company Liability Is Not Going Away
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - California's failed experiment with MTBE appears unlikely to end with the chemical's gradual elimination from...
Former State Inspector Faces Extortion Trial
By Martin Bergn
A veteran inspector in a highly touted state agency devoted to cracking down on labor abuses in the garment industry was indi...
Katzenberg Pay-Out From Disney Already a Fortune
By Garry Abrams
Movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg has already received two large payments from the Walt Disney Co. as part of the agreement ...
L.A. Lawyers Endorse Bar Reform And Legal Services Legislation
By Don De Benedictis
Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees simultaneously gave both grumbling and wholehearted support to pending legislatio...
Pillsbury Partner Signs Up To Help a Fallen Soldier
By Amy Bourne
SAN FRANCISCO - Fighting in Vietnam changed attorney Charles E. Patterson's life for the better, he says, by destroying any i...
Democrats Block Vote on Bill to Curb Y2K Suits
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - After several days of vigorous debate, Senate Democrats used parliamentary devices Thursday to block a vote on a...
Appellate Court Limits Reach of Prop. 213
By Anna Marie Stolley
A motorist injured while driving his employer's uninsured vehicle is not barred under a 1996 initiative from recovering for p...
Justices Struggle With Scope of the Disabilities Act
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Asked to interpret the Americans With Disabilities Act in the employment context, the Supreme Court wrestled thi...
Breast-Feeding Mom Sues Borders Books
By Denise Levin
Borders, a nationwide chain of music and book stores, encourages its customers to purchase lattes and cafe au laits from its ...
Despite Disability Law, Advocates Say Rights Are Trampled On
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Alberti thought he had the right stuff to be a successful sheriff's deputy - he is athletic, is a train...
Officer-Involved Shooting Suit Settles for $3.3M
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to settle an officer-involved shooting lawsuit for nearly $3.3 million. Th...
Lawyer Pleads No Contest to Pandering
By Michael Harris
One day after he decided to let a judge try him on charges he operated a prostitution ring out of his law office, Tarzana tax...
Rocketdyne Employees Indicted in Deadly Explosion
By Martin Bergn
Three employees of a Southern California testing laboratory were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on environmental ...
Media Witnesses Microsoft Deposition
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The deposition setup looked fairly typical Wednesday. Around a long conference table sat lawyers representing as...
Up Close and Personal
By Jean Guccione
PALM SPRINGS - The Commission on Judicial Performance has always made state judges feel a little uneasy - and perhaps even mo...
Katzenberg Case Gets Overheated As Counsel Spar
By Garry Abrams
A media request for documents in the trial of movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg's $250 million suit against the Walt Disney ...
Cyberstalker Pleads Guilty to Crimes
By Michael Harris
The North Hollywood man charged with using the Internet to stalk and solicit the rape of a woman who had rebuffed him - the f...
Jury Awards Ex-Kmart Cashier $4.2M in Damages
By Denise Levin
A former Kmart cashier was awarded $4.2 million in damages by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury that found she was fired in r...
Bankruptcy Bill Penalizes Bad Lawyers
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Bankruptcy legislation wending its way through the House and Senate Judiciary Committees is bogged down in vigor...
Animation and Video Help Tell a Legal Story
By Martin Kruming
For years, Jim Gripp has helped criminal attorneys - both prosecution and defense - tell their stories with graphics. Today, ...
Tribal Say in Adoptions Wins Committee OK
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to give Native American tribal courts greater say in child custody placements won unanimous approval ...
Bill to Rebuild State Bar Passes First Hurdle
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO ---- Legislation to cut lawyers' dues to $395, reduce continuing education requirements and restrict the bar's lob...
Court Halts Ex-Intel Employees E-Mails
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a major battle pitting a corporation's right to control its Internet system against an individual's right of fr...
Prostitution Ring Trial to Begin Today
By Michael Harris
Facing an almost certain conviction on charges he operated a prostitution ring out of his law office, Tarzana tax attorney Bo...
Katzenberg Testifies on Rift With Eisner
By Garry Abrams
Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner rose from his desk and backed away from his estranged studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg ...
Judge Receives Political Payback From State Senator
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Memo to San Diego County unified court judges: Avoid angering state lawmakers who represent the area, at least wh...
After Years on Docket, Adoption Case Settles
By John Roemer
The bitter, protracted litigation over the custody of 5-year-old Haley A. settled Monday, just eight days before it was set f...