LOS ANGELES - By the time police arrived at his Santa Barbara home, Daniel Thompson was passed out drunk in his own bed. Alert...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court granted habeas corpus hearings Wednesday to two men on California's death row. Cliffor...
Judges and Judiciary
Critics Say Attempt to Recall Judge Is Partisan
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Two trial judges uphold domestic partnership rights for same-sex couples. One - appointed by a Democrat - is the ...
LOS ANGELES - A man accused of contracting to kill his sister can be changed with attempted murder, even if the hit man he hir...
WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary has slashed 1,350 jobs in the past 12 months as it dealt with a continuing budget crunch, t...
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't fair for a judge to stop an accused Montana pot dealer from confronting a snitch, so a federal appel...
LOS ANGELES - Caltech graduate student William Cottrell proclaimed his hatred of SUVs on the witness stand Wednesday, but he d...
Intellectual Property
'The Incredibles': Studios, Justice Urge Students to Just Say No to Piracy
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The Motion Picture Association of America and the U.S. Department of Justice apparently hope to add i...
SAN DIEGO - The League of Women Voters of San Diego filed suit Wednesday seeking an order requiring the registrar of voters to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Calling the state's prison guard discipline system "broken to the core," U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson...
Civil Rights
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Award-Winner Isn't Appropriate for Broadcast
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - I find it interesting that [Garry Abrams] identifies the objections of "conservative groups" as a signi...
INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Outdoor Dimensions Inc. has signed a 94-month lease for an 110,000-square-foot industrial facility locate...
LOS ANGELES - In April 2001, a 16-year-old El Monte high-school student, with no previous record and a gift for poetry, recei...
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Joel M. Grossman - It is close to midnight. The mediation has lasted 15 hou...
Judges and Judiciary
Will Rehnquist Bear the Ignominy of Being on the Wrong Side of History?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Noah W. Griffin - With the recent illness of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, many are...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Tuesday refused to issue an order that would have prohibited election officials from certifyin...
LOS ANGELES - Upscale clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch will pay $40 million to employees and rejected job applicants...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge testified Tuesday that dispensing justice from a strip club wasn't "what I ne...
SAN FRANCISCO - Paula Kamena, a former probation officer who became Marin County's first female district attorney, has announ...
Column - By Philip Carrisoza - Excuses, excuses! "My dog ate my homework." "I got caught in traffic." "I thought someone else ...
LOS ANGELES - Once as wide as the geographic gulf between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the artistic divide between the film a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco-based special master has unusually broad investigative powers to enforce reforms within the C...
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury is told that DNA testing that matched evidence to a black rape-murder suspect had a 1 in 96 billion ch...
SANTA ANA - Three former tenants sued Orange Superior Court Judge John M. Watson on Tuesday, alleging that the jurist refused ...
LOS ANGELES - Bruce G. Iwasaki thought he'd be driving to the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel tonight to celebrate the 75th ann...
LOS ANGELES - The Credit Lyonnais litigation, complex by nature, became even messier this summer when a central figure long id...
Judges and Judiciary
Local Panels Help Governor Fill Vacancies On the Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vastly expanded the use of local committees to review bench candidates before ...
INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Cristek Interconnect Inc. has purchased a 50,265-square-foot industrial building at 5395 Hunter from Mont...
Constitutional Law
Officials Display Callous Disregard for Constitutional Precepts
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John Aiello - One of the basic tenets of due process and the Constitution is that people be allowed to commu...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Rodger R. Cole - Companies increasingly are looking to recruit employees working for compet...