SACRAMENTO - California's judiciary has one of its best shots in years at getting funds to build new courthouses and renovate...
Forum Column - By Harvey Gee - In his most recent book, "The 'Huddled Masses' Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights" (2004), Kevi...
Intellectual Property
There's No Easy Way to Root Out Trolls by Patent Reform
By Columnist
Focus Column - By C.J. Alice Chen and Darren E. Donnelly - The U.S. Supreme Court will soon reconsider the long-lived standard...
LOS ANGELES - Jan Handzlik knew what he wanted to do when, as a child, he saw Raymond Burr play the role of a white-collar def...
SAN FRANCISCO - Craig Thompson, a nearly 30-year veteran of the California attorney general's office who specialized in enviro...
WASHINGTON - When Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. finishes his time in the hot seat before the Senate Judiciary Comm...
Entertainment & Sports
Conspiracy? What Conspiracy? Mysteries Stripped to the Bone
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Take it off. Take it all off! Show us some skin! Well, hallelujah, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, or...
By Douglas W. Kmiec - On the opening day of Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination hearings, the Democratic senators t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal appellate judges wrongly reversed a California man's death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wedne...
Judges and Judiciary
Prolific Writer, Independent Thinker Defies Pigeonholing
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - John T. Noonan Jr. has penned more than 200 scholarly articles and book reviews and more than a dozen major bo...
DUBIOUS DISTINCTION -- Can San Francisco, known as the country's ultraliberal city, really be among the "meanest" to homeless ...
LOS ANGELES - Catherine J. Pratt, a deputy counsel for Los Angeles County, has been elected a Los Angeles County Superior Cour...
LOS ANGELES - Officials with the U.S. District Court for the Central District have created a new magistrate judge position to ...
SACRAMENTO - A proposed two-year moratorium on California's death penalty cleared its first legislative committee hurdle Tuesd...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Gov. Pete Wilson went after several state affirmative action programs, a group of pro-affirmative action ...
Forum Column - By Patrick L. Mattimore and Jean Amabile - No one was surprised when Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorne...
Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - Three weeks have now passed since the Bush administration's program of extra-judicial e...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of Zwirn v. Schweitzer (ordered published Dec. 14) the 2nd District Court ...
LOS ANGELES - The next generation of TV hardly would be recognizable to Philo Farnsworth, the farm boy who invented the medium...
LAS VEGAS - The president of a now-defunct Las Vegas broker-dealer company has agreed to pay $153 million, including a record ...
LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers has become the latest Los Angeles-based law firm to raise associate base salaries, accord...
SAN FRANCISCO - California prison inmates may have time on their hands, but they had better not waste any before filing habeas...
LOS ANGELES - A law firm that shut down in Los Angeles years ago and later closed its doors in Ohio still must answer to a mal...
Law Practice
San Bernardino DAs, Defenders Get Pay Raise
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a 12.5 percent raise for attorneys in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday revived efforts by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and San Francisco City ...
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 ...