LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Tuesday ordered the city of Malibu to pay a couple $35,000 in sanctions for filing a "frivolou...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego's registrar of voters testified Tuesday that she often counted ballots that offered clues to voter inte...
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurers have agreed to pay a fraction of the costs the state has incurred in cleaning up one of California's...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel tossed one of the final claims remaining from a two-decade-old toxic-tort case that once...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge sharply questioned prosecutors Tuesday about their bid to convict top litigator Pierce O'Don...
LOS ANGELES - The case of McClure v. City of Long Beach climaxed, so it seemed, in August, when, after an eye-popping five mon...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury awarded $1 million each in punitive damages to two female Federal Express...
Administrative/Regulatory
Judge Limits Potential Fines In Suit Against PG&E Parent
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has delivered a major blow to public entities that have accused PG&E Corp. of illic...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges, Attorneys Unite Behind Magistrate Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Four years ago, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen G. Larson applied for a federal judgeship but didn't make the cut. N...
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - The 7Up/RC Bottling Co. signed a five-year lease for a 41,736-square-foot industrial building locate...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Dual Functions of State Bar Need to Be Torn Asunder
By Columnist
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - New State Bar President John Van de Kamp is a man of extraordinary talent and accomplis...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Raymond Choate, a death-penalty expert who presided over Charles Manso...
LOS ANGELES - A former executive with Vans Inc. seemed to have a good defense to federal bribery charges when e-mails surfaced...
SAN BERNARDINO - Less than a week after hiring a lawyer convicted of paying jail inmates to garner clients, San Bernardino Pub...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge JoAnn Remke quickly signaled that she had heard enough from a prosecutor appearing before her. "I hate ...
Government
Judge Sanctions County $54,000 for 'Ineptitude' in Turning Over Evidence
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - In a scathing ruling, a judge sanctioned Los Angeles County $54,000 on Monday for "ineptitude" in failing to tu...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has handed a victory to backers of a public corruption initiative blocking public offic...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that Oakland's predatory lending law cannot stand because it confli...
Litigation
Write-In Voters' Rights Were Violated, Attorney Tells Judge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A lawyer for supporters of mayoral write-in candidate Donna Frye told a judge Monday that votes for Frye were tre...
SANTA MARIA - While throngs of fans, ringed by cameras, cheered Michael Jackson at the start of jury selection for his child-m...
SAN FRANCISCO - An undocumented immigrant who was deported to Mexico while awaiting a hearing for his asylum petition was den...
Criminal
L.A. Mouthpieces Uncharacteristically Clam Up With Prosecutors
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Legally speaking, who's tougher, the New York Mafia or the Los Angeles power elite? ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's leading semiconductor manufacturer, will pay Taiwan ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The sole black woman on the California Supreme Court said Monday that the court may have erred 20 years ago w...
Morrison & Foerster's securities litigation practice got a boost this month with the acquisition of Sean Prosser and Kimbe...
When Rob Feldman and Keiko Johnson launched Juris Productions in 2002, they staked their experience as KNBC-TV news producers ...
And the Winner Is... Pharmaceutical companies didn't grab all the big defense verdicts in 2004. From obtaining the only win a...
After three years of fighting for the civil rights of girls and women as a staff attorney at the California Women's Law Center...
SACRAMENTO - Taking aim at the critics who have ruled him out of the 2006 race for California attorney general, state Sen. Jo...
Five litigators from San Francisco's C.W. Wood & Associates have joined McKenna Long & Aldridge. Steering the group is...