Environmental
Courts Must Resolve Safety of Former Nuclear Research Site for Public Use
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bennett Ramberg - Although the Cold War ended a decade ago, its environmental legacy lives on. How to resolv...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Until she was 7, Jackie lived happily with her mother and grandparents. Grandma took ...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Vasquez' Urges Fact-Specific Examination of Duty, Causes
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Recently, the 4th District Court of Appeal provided some important guidance...
Law Practice
Litigator Got State Supreme Court to Speed Its Opinions
By Allison Schifani
LOS ANGELES - A celebration of the life of longtime insurance defense litigator Stanley M. Sapiro will take place later this ...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner in Hayward Keeps Traffic Court Moving
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Professional sporting events have played a pivotal role in Karen Rodrigue's life. In 1974 she skipped the phys...
Administrative/Regulatory
Panel Says Cops Don't Always Have To Knock
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In the movies, the cops usually knock first when they make a home visit. But if the police park outside your ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles and New Orleans police officials arrested a man Tuesday near the French Quarter who was wanted in a ...
RIVERSIDE - A murdered toddler's siblings cannot sue the county Department of Public Social Services for failing to stop their...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday shelved a plan to hand out raises to its members, the distri...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors do not have to prove an overt act to win a conviction for conspi...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Peterson, the last remaining equity partner in Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis' Silicon Valley offic...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyer Blames Fatal Ventura Landslide on Avocado Ranch
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - As rescuers continue to search for survivors under the tons of mud and debris that washed away homes and buried...
Appellate Practice
Panel Overturns Conviction of Teen Who Took Knife to Class
By Dan Evans
SAN DIEGO - Being mouthy doesn't give a teacher the right to rifle a student's belongings, according to a published ruling by ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles school board on Tuesday approved a $193,000-a-year salary for newly appointed special counsel Ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - An animal rights lawsuit accusing state officials of falsely advertising California cows as "happy" was put o...
SAN DIEGO - Stickball on the streets of Philadelphia was an outlet for Peter L. Gallagher's boundless energy from the time he...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed Monday giving $88.4 million more to the trial courts for the current year's b...
INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - The Koll Co. purchased Hunter Business Park, a three-building industrial center totaling 105,319 squar...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - The 4th District Court of Appeal's decis...
SAN FRANCISCO - Though he sometimes presides over the pettiest of crimes, Fresno Superior Court Judge Dale Ikeda likes to thi...
Litigation
State Claim Rate for Microsoft Deal Just 1 in 20 at Deadline
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Of the 14 million California consumers eligible to recover vouchers as part of a blockbuster class action sett...
Labor/Employment
Justices Won't Hear Appeal of Berkeley's Living-Wage Law
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Berkeley's living-wage ordinance, letting stand a 9th...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a closely watched gay-rights battle by declining to review a lower-court...
LOS ANGELES - A supporter of Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn was accused Monday of fraudulently contributing a combined $125,500...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney being sued for legal malpractice has been arrested and charged with grand theft in conne...
LOS ANGELES - A foul-mouthed Phil Spector told police that the death of Lana Clarkson was an accident, but he later changed h...
SAN DIEGO - Warning that the city faces bankruptcy, City Attorney Mike Aguirre on Monday called for the mayor and City Counci...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed the victim...
Criminal
Sunset Boys: We're Learning Too Much About Geriatric Lady Killers
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Two murder cases with intriguing similarities may not make a trend. Nonetheless, I am a bit uneasy ...
LOS ANGELES - Justice Earl Johnson Jr. has spent two decades on the 2nd District Court of Appeal, much of that time waging in...