SAN FRANCISCO - Movie studios and record labels will have to continue pursuing digital pirates one download at a time - or el...
SACRAMENTO - A conservative federal appeals court judge Thursday issued a scathing opinion that protects an inmate's rights wh...
LOS ANGELES - Prominent white-collar criminal defense attorney Jan Handzlik, a former assistant U.S. attorney who has served e...
LOS ANGELES - In the end, probably no one could have saved 4-year-old Carmen Castaneda, who died in March 2003 of cardiac arre...
SACRAMENTO - In 1978, Mark Leno dropped out of rabbinical school in New York, moved to San Francisco and started a small sign-...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Andre E. Jardini - Attorney fees are an important element of damages in an insurance bad-fai...
Labor/Employment
Workers Suffer When Administration Is Cozy With Business
By Columnist
Forum Column - By George Miller - Next week, Bush administration regulations affecting which employers must pay overtime will ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By John J. Manier - California employers breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Court o...
LOS ANGELES - A man who overturned an order that forced him to pay to support children he didn't father has filed papers fight...
LOS ANGELES - Wasting no time, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real acquitted W. Shepardson "Shep" McCook Wednesday of all federal ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Employee Who Alleged Racism, Retaliation May Return
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - An American Bar Association employee on leave since alleging that her supervisors told her she was hiring too man...
Judges and Judiciary
Citation Rules Mean Equal Treatment Isn't Guaranteed
By Peter Blumberg
Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - Two years ago in Los Angeles, a man who refused to stop picketing outside Johnn...
LOS ANGELES - In a controversial split decision Wednesday, a federal appeals court held that a learning-impaired student faile...
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply split 11-judge federal appeals panel Wednesday upheld the forced collection of DNA blood samples fro...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge could rule today in one of a flurry of cases that pits reporters' traditional First Amendment pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - An executive order signed soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks is being used improperly by the military to ex...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - As the War on Drugs continues, one issue that frequently arises is wheth...
Criminal
Former Legislator Will Vie to Be Riverside DA
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Prosecutor and former Assemblyman Rod Pacheco announced Tuesday that he will run for Riverside district attorney i...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors Tuesday finally went to trial against W. Shepardson "Shep" McCook, the central figure in all...
LOS ANGELES - Eighty more former clients have come forward with claims that personal-injury lawyer Bret M. Cooke of San Luis O...
Litigation
Builder of Backyard Playhouse Will Pay Santa Monica $85,000
By Claude Walbert
SANTA MONICA - The builder of a backyard playhouse will pay the city of Santa Monica $85,000 in legal fees under an agreement ...
Criminal
Libel Battle Pits Psychologist Against Papers
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - As a contract psychologist for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Nancy K. Bohl says she helps d...
REDWOOD CITY - Judge John Schwartz views himself as pretty conservative, a tough sentencer and, all in all, a fairly typical a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge who ordered San Francisco to stop giving women- and minority-owned businesses special treatment when...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - There's nothing quite as refreshing as a well-written dissent. That came to mind last week with t...
Public Interest
Proposition 69 Offers a Safe, Efficient Method to Solve and Prevent Crime
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Critics of the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act rely on inflammat...
SANTA MARIA - Santa Barbara District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon Jr. denied repeatedly Monday that he ever considered the possi...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Clara Torres moved to the United States from her native Colombia last year, she didn't speak a word of En...
Government
Voiding of Same-Sex Marriages Isn't Final Word; Real Test Is Yet to Come
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Levine - Thursday's state Supreme Court decision regarding San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's au...
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment, the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses is so ...