SAN DIEGO - Tempted by the prospect of gaining six-pack abs without exercise, thousands of people bought battery-powered AbEn...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court sent the case of a 17-year-old boy who sexually abused children back to juvenile court Tu...
LOS ANGELES - Many observers of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial doubted that playing the race card would work for the defense...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that when nominal damages are awarded in a class action, e...
SANTA ANA - An Oceanside woman who shot and killed her husband a decade ago is not entitled to habeas relief because state cou...
Constitutional Law
Parents Rip Military's Selective Recruitment of Poor Students
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Criticizing the U.S. military for a "poverty draft," a group of Los Angeles-area teachers, parents and students ...
Criminal
Death Penalty Decision Hinges On Credibility of Ex-Prosecutor
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Whether Fred Freeman's death sentence should be overturned on the grounds that the jury selection process in his tr...
LOS ANGELES - After a five-week "whirlwind romance," high-profile Los Angeles insurance coverage litigation boutique Pasich &a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Modesto judge has ruled that the California Voting Rights Act, a 2001 statute meant to give minorities more ...
Constitutional Law
Teacher Sues School Over Restricting Religion in Class
By Staff Writer
SAN JOSE - Several years ago, Stephen Williams a veteran fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek School in Cupertino, had a relig...
LOS ANGELES - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., the brilliant Los Angeles lawyer who became a global celebrity for winning O.J. Simpson'...
Constitutional Law
High Court Considers If S.F. Hotel Can Press Federal Suit
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Stepping into a seemingly never-ending dispute over San Francisco's hotel conversion ordinance, the Supreme Court...
LOS ANGELES - For years, Leona Harrison had been trying to persuade child welfare officials to let two of her teenage sibling...
Firm Watch
Assembly Bill Gives California Chance To Grant Residents Dignified Death
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The confluence of the movie "Million Dollar Baby" and the political struggle of Terri Schi...
Forum Column - By Natasha Minsker - Two death penalty cases are tried in the same county, at the same time, and are marred by ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Decision Threatens Validity Of Many Arbitration Clauses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Thomas E. McCurnin - On Feb. 28, the 2nd District Court of Appeal invalidat...
Administrative/Regulatory
McPherson Would Bring Integrity Back to State Capitol
By Columnist
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Forum Column - By Robert H. Philibosian - Bruce McPherson, a former state senator, has been asked to take on ...
Letter to the Editor - There was one little thing wrong with the approach that [Marin County Superior Court] Judge Lynn Duryee...
SAN FRANCISCO - Adrian Kragen, a leading income tax law expert who gave up a job representing Hollywood movie stars to teach ...
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - JW Investment Group purchased a 60,000-square-foot industrial building at 639 E. Walnut St. from Win...
SAN FRANCISCO - Francis R. Walsh, a professor and law school dean for more than 50 years at the University of San Francisco S...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marshall B. Grossman, senior partner at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Los Angeles, has been elected...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a California death-penalty case to determine whether the state Supr...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the prosecution of former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ron...
International
Bush's Order May Make Mexican's Death-Penalty Appeal Moot
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday acknowledged that it faced weighty, difficult questions in deciding whether federal ...
LOS ANGELES - The skeletal remains found in the chimney of an abandoned halfway house in South Los Angeles over the weekend b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mercedes calls the S500 "the world's premier luxury sedan." But the Las Vegas woman who found the brakes were...
SANTA ANA - The mother of the man on trial for kidnapping and killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was excused from the witnes...
Criminal
Coming Soon to Fox News: Cooley and Blake in 'The Very Odd Couple'
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley comes home from a hard day at the office and greets his ...
Civil Rights
Jury Bias Hearings Casts Light on Prosecutorial Code of Silence
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal community saw last week how prosecutors react when one of their own turns himself in, 16 years late...