LOS ANGELES - In a case of first impression, a state appellate court Monday threw out a million-dollar age and discrimination ...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's attorney wants to keep from jurors all "tangible and intangible" evidence seized during a May 200...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bonnie Rose Hough, a senior attorney at the Administrative Office of the Courts' Center for Families, Children...
SACRAMENTO - Advocates for homeowner association members are puzzling over a veto message the governor issued on a bill that w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two of four Iranian brothers jailed since 2001 as supporters of an alleged terrorist group must be released on...
Criminal
DNA Ballot Item Pits Fear of Police State Against Nabbing Serial Killers
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Proposition 69, the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, on the Nov. 2 ballo...
SAN DIEGO - The family had a run of misfortunes beginning in 1999. The father and one daughter were killed while cliff diving ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to rule that portions of the federal sentencing guidelines are uncons...
SAN FRANCISCO - The clothes may not make the man, but sometimes they offer some clues. In the case of Alameda County Superior ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a challenge to California's tribal-state gambling compacts that al...
LOS ANGELES - Activist Ted Hayes will be in court this week to fight for $532 million from the city of Los Angeles for alleged...
Criminal
Supreme Court Decisions on Sentencing Ignore Intentions of Constitution's Framers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Rory K. Little - This first Monday in October presents oral arguments in a pair of expedited cases in the U....
Administrative/Regulatory
Restoring Stream Requires Grit, Determination, Hard Work
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Daniel Moulthrop - The combatants in the endless and expensive wars over water use in California should meet...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - Long before Arthur Andersen and Martha Stewart made high-profile financial fraud ...
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold a confirmation hearing Tuesday on Justice Norman Epstein's nom...
LOS ANGELES - Former Compton Judge Huey Percy Shepard pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he siphoned $176,000 from clients, ...
Judges and Judiciary
Bench Recuses Itself From Christian-Inscription Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The county's Superior Court judges have decided they cannot fairly hear a lawsuit accusing the court's presiding j...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - Federal officials brought their road show to San Francisco last week, trying to invigorate a law ...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Says Judge Committed Misconduct in Fixing Tickets
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Yuba County Superior Court Judge David E. Wasilenko committed repeated acts of willful misconduct through his ...
Many come to the Westin Century Plaza Hotel & Spa and the St. Regis Los Angeles to be doted on while they relax at the swa...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court last week ended a simmering legal controversy over Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delga...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Arnold Keiser - Since Sept. 11 and the dot-com bust, firms have lost significant amounts of ...
Firm Watch
Compensation Expert Joins Stradling Yocca As Newest Of-Counsel
By Lorelei Laird
Executive compensation law specialist Philip Koehler has joined the corporate law group at Orange County's Stradling Yocca Car...
The Hooters restaurant chain, under fire because of a location manager who sexually harassed 14 women by secretly watching the...
San Diego's Fish & Richardson found out that two really is better than one when it comes to firm management. The firm crea...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Tackles Gay Marriage, War on Terrorism
By Don De Benedictis
Same-sex marriages, the war on terrorism and, of course, the nuts and bolts of practicing law in California will be leitmotifs...
Administrative/Regulatory
Firm Administrators Help Clothe Shelter Residents
By Don De Benedictis
By Don J. DeBenedictis Law-office administrators from around Orange County helped homeless and battered women move forward wit...
Litigation
Attorney Objects to Judges Opening Court Sessions by Reciting Pledge
By Eron Yehuda
Criminal defense attorney William T. Mayo of Chico recently sued to stop two judges from continuing to open court sessions by ...
Academic politics are so bitter because the stakes are so small, Henry Kissinger once said. So the level of acrimony is especi...
After eight years of litigation and three appeals, an infringement dispute between two Southern California orange-drink compet...