Court: Jury Must Weigh Police Force
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with significant ramifications for excessive force cases, a federal appeals court has denied qual...
UCLA Law Family Seeks Ways to Stay Diverse
By Anne La Jeunesse
Students and faculty are roundly disturbed by the low numbers of minority students at the UCLA School of Law and have called ...
Impetus Grew Over Decades
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The convictions that led to unification grew over decades, according to the Judicial Council's administrative off...
Killer's Parents Claim Prompts Call for Change
By Lauren Bartlett
In light of a claim filed by the adoptive parents of convicted killer Jeremy Strohmeyer against Los Angeles County, Superviso...
LAPD Chief Seeks Limits on Inspector's Power
By Lauren Bartlett.
In an attempt to narrow the authority of the inspector general, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks has asked the Board...
Judiciary Council Asks Governor to Budget Pay Raises
By Jean Guccione
The state Judicial Council voted unanimously Friday to ask Gov. Gray Davis to include in his budget a 17 percent pay raise fo...
Unhappy SD Clerks Urging Opposition to Sitting Judges
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Court clerks unhappy with working conditions and pay levels proposed by a court committee after last year's unifi...
Unification in San Diego: More Than Just New Signs
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - While the air outside still carries the fresh salt imprint of San Diego Bay and red trolleys are disgorging the f...
Studio Swindler Got His Start As Check Bouncer
By Garry Abrams
Before he transformed himself into a world-class, billion-dollar fraud artist and bought a Hollywood studio with funny money,...
Pivotal Issue: Not Death but Dismembering
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - After 15 years of physical and emotional abuse, it was one final rape that Gladis Barreras Soto claims prompted her...
TWO BAY AREA LITIGATORS HANG THEIR SHINGLE Two well-known San Francisco litigators have left the comfort of their firms to fo...
Legal concepts are supernatural entities which do not have a verifiable existence except to the eyes of faith. Felix S. Cohen...
Witches and Ghosts Haunt Gray Family
By Columnist
^^Judging Amy^^ By Corky Pickering Was this week's child-custody battle between a witch named Ms. Featherstone and her estran...
Iles Responds to Recusal Motion
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Iles Responds to Recusal Motion LAGUNA NIGUEL - Orange County Superior Court Judge Pamela Iles responded Thursday to allegati...
Father Doesn't Know Best
By Columnist
^^Family Law^^ By Erin O'Bryan Stealing from recent headlines, this week's episode tackles the issue of teen violence in scho...
School Colors
By Columnist
By Dirk Tillotson The relationship of silence to complicity is a well-worn path. However overused the metaphor, it remains ap...
Blood Thicker Than Stripes
By Columnist
^^Law & Order^^ By Mara V. Watkins Maybe it was the baseball playoffs, or the demands of producing a quality hour of TV w...
Judge Hosts Viewing of 'Full Monty'
By Columnist
^^The Practice^^ By Cynthia Filla Most murder defendants, both sane and insane, would jump at the chance for an insanity plea...
Conscious Sin
By Columnist
Conscious Sin Statements Obtained in Intentional Violation of 'Miranda' May Be Used to Impeach By Alex Ricciardulli It is wel...
DA Seeks Further Stay of Injunction
By Michael Harris
DA Seeks Further Stay of Injunction The Los Angeles County district attorney's office today will seek to further stay an inju...
Supreme Court to Hear Zelig Case
By Lauren Bartlett
Supreme Court to Hear Zelig Case The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the children of a woman who was gu...
Refiner Sues to Head Off Activists' Suit
By Dennis Pfaff
The Tosco Corp., which operates a problem-plagued East Bay oil refinery, has issued an unusual pre-emptive strike against its...
Judiciary Committee OK's Commission, U.S. Attorney
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday forwarded to the full Senate the nomination of Paul L. Seave to serve...
Santa Ana Attorney Andrew DiMarco Dies at 67
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Santa Ana attorney Andrew Joseph DiMarco, described as a compassionate and loving person who cared deeply about b...
Ex-Officer Convicted in Cocaine Retrial
By Martin Bergn
After less than two hours of deliberation, a federal court jury convicted a former state narcotics officer Thursday in his re...
Jurors Begin Deliberation in Class Action Against Car Maker
By Patricia Jocobus
OAKLAND - Warren Platt, lawyer for the auto giant Ford Motor Co., stuffed his hands in his suit pockets, moved confidently to...
L.A. Municipal Court Electing New, Perhaps Unneeded, Chief
By Denise Levin
The ballots for election of the next Los Angeles Municipal Court assistant presiding judge were sent out this week with only ...
O.C. Judge Pleads to DUI; 2nd Awaits Arraignment
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Judge Thomas Borris, the first of two Orange County judges arrested this year on charges of drunken driving, plea...
Appellate Justices Debate Grand Jury Secrecy
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE -- An appellate court panel grappled Thursday with the question of whether Santa Clara County prosecutors are concea...
Old-Fashioned Politics Hold Up Cooper Vote
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., last week scheduled a floor vote on the noncontroversial U.S. Distri...