Justices Uphold Child Sex Abuse Act
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant charged with continuous sexual abuse of a minor under a 1990 state law can be convicted based in ...
Court Upholds Prisoner's Right to Hormones
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials can't abruptly stop female hormone treatments for transsexual inmates after first allo...
Waive Goodbye?
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - In its attempt to avoid the problem of federal pre-emption, a bill to curb mandatory arbitration could have far-...
Judge Worked to Ensure an Easy Transition to Unification
By Mark Blumberg
SANTA CLARA - As the Santa Clara County struggled to unite both halves of its court system last year, Sandra S. Faithfull sto...
L.A. County Pays $550K for Abuse Charge
By Cheryl Romo
After a six-year legal battle fought in both state and federal courts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approv...
High Court Weighs Whether States Can Be Sued Over Federal Rights
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - A slim majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to strike another blow for states' rights by rulin...
City Attorney Wont Charge Fund-Raising Prosecutors
By Michael Harris
For the second time in recent weeks, the Los Angeles city attorney's office has declined to file misdemeanor charges against ...
Golden Gate Law School Trustees Address Accreditation Issue
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - With the trustees of Golden Gate University heading into a potentially critical meeting in the midst of a fac...
Tools of the trade
By Jane Zastrow
By Cary S. Treff Property management has always been highly competitive. To remain at the forefront of the industry these fir...
Jury Trial Nears Closing in Deadly Force Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Riverside police officers used the appropriate force needed to subdue a man who died in part because of restraining maneuvers...
Gangs Have No Right to Free Counsel
By Michael Harris
A state appeal court Wednesday rejected a bid by the Los Angeles County public defender to set legal precedent by providing c...
Court Upholds L.A. County's Liability for False Arrests
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to become ensnared in a long-running $7.4 million suit against...
Four Judges Disciplined for Smoking in Chambers
By Jean Guccione
A record number of state judges received private admonitions by the Commission on Judicial Performance last year for minor of...
Educated Guess
By Michael Moline
Josh is a tenured faculty member who is going through a divorce. You've noticed that Josh hasn't attended many faculty meeting...
Clergy Renounce Job Protections, Court Declares
By Don De Benedictis
A chaplain who claims her church-affiliated employer has discriminated against her cannot turn to the California courts for h...
Court Allows Autistic Woman, 20, to Be Sterilized
By Anna Marie Stolley
Approving court-ordered sterilization for a 20-year-old autistic woman, a state appeal panel has defied statutory constraints...
State Campaign Reform Agency Changes Hands
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - For James M. Hall, the outgoing chairman of the state Fair Political Practices Commission, his predecessor was b...
Court Reinstates Man's Conviction for Kidnapping
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, Tuesday that federal prosecutors may charge defendants with using a firearm during...
Christopher Feted in Washington Gathering
By Jill Boekenoogen
WASHINGTON - On a day when the horror in Kosovo - and the corresponding U.S. involvement there - appeared to be escalating by ...
Casablanca Sting Operation Nets Pleas
By Martin Bergn
Two of Mexico's largest banks pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to criminal charges Tuesday stemming from what authorities said w...
Water Companies Sued for Having More Than H2O in Their Bottles
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Carefully avoiding dubbing bottled water as generally unsafe, two environmental groups Tuesday launched a spl...
Attorney Found Competent in Defense of Client
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Maureen Kallins, who is sometimes accused of overzealous lawyering in her criminal defense practice, has been...
Illegal Defense Trickery Alleged in Lawsuit
By Denise Levin
A defense attorney is accused of illegally obtaining confidential information from witnesses in a wrongful termination case b...
Chapter 12 Extension Becomes Law
By Douglas Fabrick
On March 30, 1999, President Bill Clinton signed H.R. 808 into law, which extends Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code for six m...
Packing It In
By Denise Levin
The decision to close 12 of the 17 entrances to Los Angeles County's largest courthouse is provoking a mixed reaction in its ...
Sears Is Nailed Over a Saws Flawed Design
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has upheld a $3.8 million judgment against Sears Roebuck & Co. and one of its suppli...
Davis Decision on 187 Looms Large
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The pundits are saying Gov. Gray Davis' decision whether to continue defending Proposition 187 in court is his t...
Rehnquist Demands an End to Impasse Over Judicial Funding
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has jumped into the political fray surrounding the 2000 census and funding fo...
MGM and Sony Settle Battle for Bond Franchise
By Garry Abrams
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. will continue to be the sole Hollywood home of fictional British spy James Bond under a settlement a...
Court Strikes Arbitration Provision as One-Sided
By Tom Orewyler
Further chipping away at the ability of employers to impose arbitration as a condition of employment, an appellate panel has ...