INDUSTRIAL COMPTON - Good Karma LLC purchased a 64,000-square-foot industrial building located at 1700 S. Wilmington Ave. from...
SAN FRANCISCO - The latest test of whether a corporation waives the confidentiality of any internal records it shares with fed...
Criminal
Misdemeanor Calendar Court Raises Questions of Justice, 'Content'
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John M. True III - Several times a day in my court, I question defendants about the plea they are about to e...
Letter to the Editor - Some 135,000 people dead at last count and 5 million homeless - desperately needing food, water and med...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Paul Means - A recent case out of the 2nd District Court of Appeal suggests that general ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hearing an appeal Wednesday from the lone Iranian on death row, the California Supreme Court did not seem tro...
The families of four slain security contractors whose bodies were burned and dragged through the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, s...
LOS ANGELES - Private services have taken place for Alden Gray Pearce, a retired senior partner with Loeb & Loeb and a tr...
LOS ANGELES - Howrey Simon Arnold & White announced Wednesday that it will donate $1 million to organizations helping tho...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Napa Superior Court commissioner violated Dr. Jeffrey Thomas Gray's due process rights by requiring him to s...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday turned down legendary music producer Phil Spector's request to kee...
LOS ANGELES - A three-justice panel heard the first appellate arguments Wednesday on whether a voter-approved change to the st...
Entertainment & Sports
Wiretap Case of Ex-FX Executive Makes Judge Ponder 'Mercy v. Prison'
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Former Fox television executive Steven Webster spent his second wedding anniversary in a Los Angele...
BAKERSFIELD - A veteran Kern County Superior Court judge was admonished Wednesday for abusing his judicial authority by faili...
LOS ANGELES - If he had a judicial magic wand, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Martin L. Goetsch might just make his ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The rapidly growing Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has hired three more partners to begin 2005 - two immigration...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers Ask 9th Circuit to Reconsider Death Sentence
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel got it wrong in denying condemned inmate Donald J. Beardslee's plea for a new penal...
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - An undisclosed trust purchased a 30,000-square-foot industrial building at 5900 Rodeo Road from ACI I...
Letter to the Editor - The decision to seek a death verdict is all too frequently a political decision. Take for instance one ...
Forum Colum - By Marjorie Cohn - In anticipation of hard questions that Alberto Gonzales will face at his attorney general con...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Lisa M. Baird and Andrea M. Schoor - It had ethos, pathos and punch. As some commentators ha...
Letter to the Editor - Sheppard Mullin, a full-service American Lawyer 100 law firm based in Los Angeles with 400 attorneys in...
A memorial service for retired appellate court Justice William A. Reppy will take place Jan. 13 in Montecito. Reppy, who serve...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday that Bing Crosby's communications with his attorneys ...
SANTA BARBARA - A Superior Court judge Tuesday upheld a $5.6 million verdict against the Santa Barbara County planning departm...
SAN DIEGO - In a decision with potentially far-reaching consequences, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday that an insurance ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Retroactivity of Proposition 64 Reaches Appellate Court Today
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - The first appellate arguments aimed at determining whether Proposition 64 can be invoked retroactively to throw ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel has leaped live rattlesnakes and stacks of cars, but he failed to get past a...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued an emergency stay Tuesday blocking the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los...
OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Trina Thompson Stanley ran track in high school and still considers herself a "...