Mack 'the Alleged' Knife Is Due Back in Town for B.I.G.-Suit Testimony
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Anyone who becomes nostalgic over conspiracy theories and murder will get all choked up over this o...
Wife Wins Case On Contracting Genital Warts
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - In the shadow of a recent state Supreme Court decision to review a landmark HIV transmission case, a Glendale ju...
Panel Prefers Jurors' Take On Real Life To Judges'
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors often assay courtroom truth-telling better than judges do because jurors have broader life experience,...
Formality Rules in Jurist's Court
By John Ryan
SANTA ANA - Most defense attorneys say that U.S. District Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler is on the conservative side of the law a...
Retroactive 64
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - A judge threw out a lawsuit filed against AT&T under the state's Unfair Competition Act, saying a 2004 voter...
Google Prevails on Keyword Advertising
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal judge ruled Wednesday that an auto insurance company failed to prove that search engine Google Inc. infr...
Daily Deals -- Transactions for Dec. 15
By Joseph Pimentel
INDUSTRIAL NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Meridith Childers purchased a 4,000-square-foot industrial facility located at 10707-09 Burbank ...
Jury Convicts Attorney in Credit-Card Scheme
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles took just 21/2 hours Tuesday to convict local attorney Christian Ehlers of 21 cri...
New Procedures Will Aid Accurate Eyewitness Identification
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lisa Bruiniers, Craig Ching, Mark Goossens and Dan Taylor - Eyewitness identification procedures -photo spre...
Test Scores Should Not Determine Destiny for Any Students
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Cheryl I. Harris - As we come to the close of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education , there is...
New Law on Filing Deadlines Results in Ambiguities
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Kevin Norte - AB3078, approved by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on July 15, 2004, amends, in part,...
Panel OKs Wobbler Sentence Enhancement
By Claude Walbert
Proposition 21, the measure passed by voters to toughen sentences, is tough, all right. The measure can add years to a senten...
Panel Says BlackBerry Infringed Patents
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court affirmed Tuesday a district court ruling that the maker of the popular BlackBerry han...
Lawyer Will Plead Guilty to Tax Charges for Money From Trusts
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena trusts and tax attorney who worked for some of the Southland's most prominent families has agreed to...
Court Revives Asbestos Suit, Debunking Discovery Myth
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - An asbestos case that fell prey to a civil discovery "urban legend" should be revived, the 1st District Court...
Garment Suit Settles
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Garment workers ended a lawsuit and a three-year boycott of Forever 21 Inc. Tuesday with an out-of-court settle...
Panel Will Mull Whether Disabled Foster Child Can Sue
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court will hear arguments today over whether a disabled foster child can sue the Los Angeles Count...
George Cites Progress in 'Dysfunctional' Capital Appeals
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - If and when the death verdict against Scott Peterson becomes final, he will have to contend with a capital ap...
Vexatious Litigant Will Meet the Chief
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A prolific pro se has taken his beef all the way to the top. Chief Justice Ronald M. George remains a defenda...
Judge Boosted U.S., UCLA, Superior Court
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Jurists, lawyers and others who knew Judge Alan G. Buckner will gather on Friday to honor and remember the popul...
Daily Deals -- Transactions for Dec. 14
By Joseph Pimentel
INDUSTRIAL ORANGE - Crystal Cathedral Ministries signed a five-year, $2 million lease for a 42,918-square-foot industrial bui...
Death and Distortion
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - When the jury of six men and six women sentenced Scott Peterson to death Monday, at the very least they demon...
Bush Must Continue to Name Strict Constructionists to Bench
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - I always thought if I got to meet President Bush before the election and he tried to convin...
Sarbanes-Oxley Helps Firms Cut Off Frivolous Allegations
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By John S. Adler - The first federal court challenge to the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxle...
Cop's Porn-Video Ruling Returns Sanity to 9th Circuit States
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals frequently is beaten about the head and ears on ac...
Pretrial Hearing in Runion Case Focuses on New DNA Testing
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - The reliability of relatively new DNA tests took center stage as pretrial hearings opened Monday in the Samantha R...
Mutual Fund Companies Settle With SEC
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Two subsidiaries of Franklin Resources Inc., one of the nation's largest mutual fund companies, have agreed t...
Lambda Names New National Legal Director
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday named Jon W. Davidson its national legal director. Davidson, ...
Mahony Misspoke on Abuse, Lawyers Allege
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony didn't tell the truth six years ago when he testified in court that he was una...
Alameda County Veteran Proves Fearless Under Fire
By Dennis Opatrny
HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter still recalls with amusement the day he refereed a dispute between...