SAN FRANCISCO - Through an unhappy combination of geology and humans' quest for cleanliness, much of California has a big, but...
Government
Liberties Advocates Defend Sheriff's Racial Segregation of Inmates
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Civil liberties groups that fought to end racial segregation in jails and prisons rushed Monday to defend the Los...
Securities
Court: Intent Determines Guilt in Sale of Unregistered Securites
By Itir Yakarn
LOS ANGELES - Defendants facing charges of selling unregistered securities will have an easier time arguing their case after a...
LOS ANGELES - A letter of complaint sparked a career in mediation for Thomas J. Stipanowich, who has been tapped to become co-...
PASADENA - The city of West Hollywood is an "innocent owner" whose property was illegally seized by the federal government in ...
By Gary Abrams - A smelly little fish has blossomed into a stinking, rotting whale. And maybe we've only had the first whiff. ...
Criminal
Age of Defendant, 81, Could Help Either the Defense or Prosecution
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Prosecutors worry jurors may sympathize with the 81-year-old Orange County woman who claims she killed a man to p...
LOS ANGELES - Former Fleishman-Hillard executive Doug Dowie alleges in court documents that he was fired last year as part of ...
LOS ANGELES - In 1980, inmate Larry "Zoom" Roberts was set for release on parole from the state prison at Vacaville following ...
CAMPAIGN FINES - The state's political watchdog agency on Monday fined the Los Angeles trial lawyers group and a San Francisco...
LOS ANGELES - Joel R. Bennett and Matthew J. Fairshter have shuttered their Pasadena business litigation practice and joined ...
LOS ANGELES - One hundred years ago, 25-year-old Alexander Wallace Rutan came from the East Coast to the orange groves of Ora...
TORRANCE - A Denver-based private investment group purchased Hamilton Place, a 250,025-square-foot office building at 20101 Ha...
LOS ANGELES - Former Judge Kenneth Starr, best-known for his stint as independent counsel investigating President Clinton, is ...
Technology & Science
Federalism: Maybe Views Hinge On the Type of Individual Right
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Forum Column - By Joshua P. Davis - The most interesting issues before the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Oregon , 126 S.Ct. 904...
Forum Column - By Norman Abrams - Most legal scholars and members of Congress assume that the National Security Agency's White...
Letter to the Editor - Your publication of a reader's response to an earlier constitutional law article by my special counsel,...
Focus Column - By William E. Winfield - Among the recent amendments to the Bankruptcy Code are some changes that are very bene...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Times Agrees to Pay Injured Cyclist $3.2 Million
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - The Los Angeles Times will pay $3.2 million to a bicyclist because a delivery driver ran him down while driving o...
Firm Watch
Prodigal Daughter Returns to Loeb & Loeb as Labor Partner
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Ivy Kagan Bierman, an entertainment labor lawyer, has joined Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles as a partner. Bierm...
LOS ANGELES - Berger Kahn, a 65-attorney law firm with four offices, continues the expansion of its business and corporate pr...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers Appreciate Unflappable Judicial Nomad
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John P. Doyle sits in chambers filled with family photos, golf balls and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyer, activist and author Oscar Acosta is perhaps best known as the sidekick to the late Hunter S. Thompson,...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Doffs Robe, Runs for Mayor of San Bernardino
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - In 30 years as a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge, Patrick J. Morris made a name for himself start...
SALARIES UP - Sullivan & Cromwell is increasing associate salaries by $20,000, sources said Friday. The move by the New Yo...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Peter S. Smith has been honored for his novel, "The Magistrates....
LOS ANGELES - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has announced that it has appointed partner Susan E. Hollander as co-manager of th...
Appellate Practice
Judge Erred During Discovery For Economic Espionage Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal appellate court has given the government a boost in one of the first cases in the nation to test a 1996 ...
CUPERTINO - Archstone-Smith purchased a 311-unit apartment community for $88 million. Archstone-Smith funded the acquisition p...
LOS ANGELES - For Mayela Rodriguez, the smell is constant, oppressive, inescapable. "It smells like garbage," she said through...