Underground Will Return in Trial of Former SLA Member
By Lauren Bartlett
The turbulent history of the Symbionese Liberation Army may be played out during the trial of former fugitive Sara Jane Olson...
Public Defender Ousted in War Between Old Timers, Newcomers
By Tom Nadeau
NEVADA CITY - Nevada County Public Defender Richard Campbell has been ousted from the post he has held for 22 years, county o...
Blood Bank Cannot Be Sued for Early AIDS Testing Decisions
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appellate panel has ruled that a blood bank association responsible for setting safety standards for the industry can...
Drug-Making Charge Requires Knowledge
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors must prove in court that defendants accused of manufacturing illegal drugs knew they were making ...
S.D. District Attorney Takes Stand
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A sometimes sarcastic district attorney for San Diego took the stand Thursday to testify about the circumstances ...
Superintendant Fights On
By Josh Grossberg
Ruben Zacarias does not plan to go quietly. That was the message the embattled yet defiant superintendent of the Los Angeles ...
May-December Romance Has A Fitting Hollywood Ending
By Garry Abrams
She's blond, says she's broke and she wants upwards of a billion bucks. Those are some of the reasons why a U.S. Bankruptcy C...
Riverside Hospital Will Pay $50,000 In Severance Deal
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - The mother of a man whose penis was bitten off when he was attacked by another patient in an intensive care ward ...
The Task: Building a Legal System From Tangled Past
By Jean Guccione
William E. Davis, who once led the state Administrative Office of the Courts, is taking his expertise to Palestine, where he ...
Justices Defer to Lawmakers
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declined Wednesday to weigh in on the state's first employment case arising from...
City Council Pays $150,000 in Legal Fees in Girls Softball Suit
By Lauren Bartlett
Giving girls greater access to athletic fields, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a lawsuit settlement that gives a s...
Landlord Told to Pay Tenants' Legal Fees
By Denise Levin
A landlord who wrongly tried to evict and then sued tenants who paid lower rents under a federally subsidized program must pa...
DNA Sleuths Hampered by Blood Money
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - With its unique ability to identify suspects from microscopic clues, DNA technology is allowing law enforcement ...
Former Director of USD Legal Clinic Dies at 74
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Charles Lynch strongly believed that law students best learn through practice in actual cases, so after he became...
Services Held for Farmers Insurance's Maloney
By Katherine Gaidos
Services have been held for Robert E. Maloney, who served as in-house counsel for Farmers Insurance Group for 35 years. Malon...
S.D. Assistant Court Administrator Succumbs
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - D. Kent Pedersen, who as court administrator watched zealously over Municipal Court employees and judges for 18 y...
ACCA Members Come Ready to Work
By Martin Kruming
The San Diego chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association has been selected as ACCA's small chapter of the year, an...
Trial Opens on Honda's Practices for Allocating Cars
By Craiq Anderson
REDWOOD CITY -- An attorney representing the former owners of a Burlingame Honda dealership accused the Japanese auto giant M...
SLA Judge Blasted for Actions In Railroad Case Conference
By Pamela Mac Lean
A former Los Angeles federal judge slated to preside over the trial of a one-time reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier ...
Stoic Chief Parks Told That Police IG Authority Is Broad
By Lauren Bartlett
With Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn at his side, a top attorney in Hahn's office told Police Chief Bernard Parks Tue...
Is DNA the Key To Unlock Cells Of the Innocent?
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Two death row inmates convicted in brutal multiple murders in the 1980s insist they can prove their innocence th...
Lawyer Resumes Product of Creative Legal Writing
By Columnist
^^The Rodent^^ Lawyer Rsums Product of Creative Legal Writing Back in the good old days, that is, before you and I went to la...
Government Gun Suits Are a Twisted Use of Tort Law
By Columnist
By Gary Kleck If Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney general, has his way, more of the nation's gun manufacturers will f...
Toward a Unified Effort
By Columnist
By Rudolph R. Loncke Seldom does a trial judge have reason to criticize, in writing, the opinion of an appellate court justic...
Party to Benefit Diversion Program
By From Staff Reports
Party to Benefit Diversion Program The Long Beach Bar Foundation will host a Halloween party Thursday to benefit SHORTSTOP, a...
Judges Association Elects New Officers
By From Staff Reports
Judges Association Elects New Officers Judge Francis A. Gately of the Rio Hondo Municipal Court in El Monte has been elected ...
Character Development
By Columnist
^^Tales & Trials^^ Character Development Demonstrations of personality traits are more persuasive than mere descriptions ...
Report Clarifies Investigator's Role
By Lauren Bartlett
Report Clarifies Investigator's Role The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office has issued a report clarifying a previous written...
Challenging Customs
By Columnist
Challenging Customs Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Two Import-Export Cases By Su Kohn Ross The 1999 U.S. Supreme Court sess...
Consumer Attorneys
By Denise Levin
Tort trends were the focus of the annual convention of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, which attracted 1,5...