Constitutional Law
Sea Club Says It Shouldn't Pay for Ties to Boy Scouts
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday on whether the city of Berkeley was within its rights to end a 5...
Administrative/Regulatory
Judge Sanctions Attorney for Talking Trash at Deposition
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday sanctioned a plaintiff's attorney involved in the church sex-abuse litigation for talking trash...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles federal prosecutors released details Tuesday of two guilty pleas in connection with the wiretapping ...
WASHINGTON - When it was time for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the only woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to quest...
BOOST FOR COURTS - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a $125.6 billion budget proposal Tuesday that includes funding for 150 ...
LOS ANGELES - CancerVax, Micromet Agree to Join Forces Biotechnology companies CancerVax Corp. and Micromet AG have announced ...
OFFICE LOS ANGELES - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged $63 million in financing for the purchase of 5900 Wilshire Blvd., a ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - As we look back on 2005, we are reminded of the many significant changes that occurred wit...
Briefly - Protests outside the homes of Los Angeles city animal shelter officials by members of a radical animal rights group ...
Judges and Judiciary
To Find Real Alito, Ignore the Hard Sell -- And the Witch Hunt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Caren Deane Thomas - When I recently received an invitation to a reunion of my Yale Law School class, it sti...
Judges and Judiciary
Questions for Alito Range from Judicial Restraint to 'Roe'
By Contributing Writers
Forum Contributions - By Leonard A. Leo • Justice Robert Jackson of the Supreme Court once famously wrote, "We are not final b...
LOS ANGELES - Two years ago, allegations of corruption within Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn's administration started flicker...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Panel Orders End to 'Vicious' Dog's 18-Month Lockup
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Sasha the dog has won a reprieve. A state appellate court on Monday ordered the Alameda County Sheriff's Departm...
Administrative/Regulatory
Big Lobbyist Hits Rock Bottom: 'Take My Money, Please'
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Things have gotten so bad for Jack Abramoff that he tried to give me money. Abramoff is the Washington, D.C., lo...
Judges and Judiciary
Reform-Minded Judge Seeks to Ease Navigation Through Emotional Family Court
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - After a career spent mostly in criminal defense, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Patrick Tondreau has thri...
MORENO VALLEY - ERP Operating LP purchased Broadstone Moreno Valley Ranch, a 176-unit apartment community at 15100 Moreno Beac...
LOS ANGELES - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund has tapped a Los Angeles federal prosecutor to serve as it...
Focus Column - By Bruce Givner - Family limited partnerships fared well in the federal courts in 2005. Following is a brief su...
Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Question: What does the Armenian genocide have in common with evolution? Answer: In certain ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Language Held Hostile, the Right to Counsel and the High Court
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Devallis Rutledge - President Bush has made his determination perfectly clear: "We cannot let terrorists and...
LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added civil litigator Dana J. Dunwoody to its business trial practi...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego law firm Sullivan Wertz McDade & Wallace has changed its name to Wertz McDade Wallace Moot & Br...
LOS ANGELES - Concerned about nonviolent offenders receiving disproportionate sentences under the state's three-strikes law, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Celebrity divorce attorney Stacy D. Phillips has seen a lot of arguments in her 22 years of counseling high-pr...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider a right-to-counsel dispute involving a Southern California t...
SANTA BARBARA - A Santa Barbara jury awarded a longtime Auto Club employee $1.2 million Friday in a disability discrimination ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys marvel at the harmony Los AngelesCounty Superior Court Commissioner Gary Bounds was able to orchestrat...
LOS ANGELES - Hydee R. Feldstein, a partner in Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker's corporate group, will depart the firm to...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Declares Mistrial After $1 Million Verdict for Nurses
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - Citing jury misconduct, a Superior Court judge Friday threw out a $1 million verdict for two former nursing sup...
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities class action king Bill Lerach's firm, already under federal scrutiny in a kickback probe, must pay ...