Focus Column - By Craig Pinedo - Section 2019.210 of the Code of Civil Procedure requires a party alleging misappropriation of...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Shoots Down Denial of Motions Close to Trial
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A three-year-old practice by Compton judges of denying all motions filed less than 30 days before trial was not ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As the recruiting season winds down, students at top law schools and representatives from leading law firms ar...
SAN FRANCISCO - The big California HMO seeking to cancel insurance for a group of San Francisco lawyers again faced tough ques...
LOS ANGELES - Law firms eager to open or expand offices in burgeoning China are looking for attorneys willing to make the leap...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department is collecting DNA evidence in nonviolent crimes for the first time under a pil...
WASHINGTON - It has become a yearly ritual on Capitol Hill. Republicans in the House and Senate introduce a variety of bills t...
LOS ANGELES - For many law students, summer clerkships, high class rankings and journal positions are all building to that one...
Letter to the Editor - Richard A. Nixon's letter to the editor criticizing so-called "judicial activism" (Oct. 21 Daily Journa...
Government
Alleged 'Bar Weenie' Miers Comes Under Fire, Basically, for Her Life
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Whatever politeness remained in the debate over President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the...
LOS ANGELES - Jody Kent is an advocate for people whom many consider society's rejects. As the jails project coordinator for t...
Constitutional Law
Texas Marriage Amendment Defies God's Principle of Love
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger, Bishop Kevin Kanouse and the Rev. Fritz Ritsch - We write as religious leaders, w...
Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Two significant environm...
SAN FRANCISCO - With Election Day less than two weeks away, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has a lot to feel good ...
LOS ANGELES - It was less than a year ago when PeopleSoft Inc. founder David Duffield's company was seized by larger rival Ora...
SAN FRANCISCO - William Speer, acting as his own attorney in a rape and murder trial in California's oldest "cold case" prosec...
LOS ANGELES - Efforts to form a combined union of Los Angeles prosecutors and public defenders may have foundered because a ke...
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for former longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward R. Roybal, a champion of minority rights wh...
LOS ANGELES - In a warehouse in suburban Los Angeles County, the district attorney's office has quietly launched an effort to ...
Entertainment & Sports
NBA's Ghetto-Chic Contributes To Profiling Decried by Players
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The NBA players who screamed racism when the league demanded that they dump their bl...
Forum Column - By Nathaniel Bruno - The worst day of my life recurred about twice a year from fifth-grade through college. The...
Focus Column - By Stephen R. Hofer - What possible connection could the resolution of a 33-year-old dispute between the United...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Richard Ceballos was, in 2000, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. He became ...
Constitutional Law
The Trouble With Money Is Sometimes It Talks Too Much
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - I dreamed I was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for wearing a T-shirt with Tom DeLay'...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Conservatives Fire at Reinhardt's Habeas Rulings Again
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - They took the weekend off, but conservatives on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday resumed hammer...
Personal Injury & Torts
Supervisors Win $1 Million for Retaliatory Firing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - He's one of the most well-known physicians in the Inland Empire. He owns Desert Valley Hospital, a medical cente...
LOS ANGELES - On his first day as Los Angeles deputy mayor in charge of homeland security, Maurice Suh flew up to Sacramento t...
UNION BRAWL - A weekend brawl at a San Dimas juvenile camp that sent five minors and a deputy probation officer to the hospita...
SAN FRANCISCO - During the high-flying days of the late 1990s' tech boom, it was all about going public. It's no surprise tha...
OFFICE SANTA ANA - CB Richard Ellis/Melody arranged a $15.95 million loan for Broe Real Estate to purchase the Irvine Corpora...