SAN FRANCISCO - A former NASA employee has sued Oakland civil rights lawyer John L. Burris, alleging he failed to supervise a...
SANTA ANA - The parents of a man who was shot with police Taser gun have filed suit, blaming the electrical-shock device for t...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday tapped veteran government lawyer Raymond G. Fortner Jr. t...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors Tuesday outlined their case against William Cottrell, the Caltech graduate student accused v...
Column - By Philip Carrizosa - Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi edged out a few inches on a judicial tightrope Monday duri...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the federal government may not deport legal aliens because they are con...
SAN FRANCISCO - Abortion rights advocates got their hopes up a year ago when Republican Sen. Arlen Specter grilled California...
INDUSTRIAL HAYWARD - 1675 Fulton LP has purchased an 84,241-square-foot distribution building located at 2707 McCone Ave. from...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera was just exercising his right to free speech when he referred to o...
Technology & Science
GOP Congress Has Stem-Cell Research Initiative in Its Sites
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar - The jubilation of disease advocacy groups and underfunded scientists over the passage of Pr...
Entertainment & Sports
'My-Big-Fat-Reality-Show Suit' Is Coming to a Court Near You
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - ABC's reality show "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" will not go down in television l...
Administrative/Regulatory
Victory Based on Appeals to Worst In People Won't Prevail Over Love
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Forum Column - By Kate Kendell - "Whenever I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Terri R. Brown - In environment-friendly California, it behooves counsel for both plaint...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Monday it will reverse a decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ropes & Gray, a prominent East Coast corporate and litigation firm, has acquired Fish & Neave, one of...
Government
Ashcroft Can't Even Fade Away Without Making Clumsy Mess of It All
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft launched a trial balloon over Washington, D.C., last week, and ...
LOS ANGELES - A San Pedro priest can pursue his slander suit against a woman who claimed the cleric was exploiting a now-dece...
Litigation
Plaintiffs' Attorneys Will Meet to Plot Anti-Vioxx Lawsuits
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - To help educate tort lawyers on the state of litigation surrounding the controversial painkiller Vioxx, hundreds...
Civil Rights
High Court Rejects Review of Conflicting Decisions on Voting Rights for Felons
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether convicted felons may use the federal Voting Rights Act t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who underwent a forced abortion under China's family control policies need not prove authorities phys...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Sklar took the stand in U.S. Tax Court on Monday to explain why he has waged a seven-year legal battle a...
VISALIA - The colorful painting on the wall where Valeriano Saucedo now works is a stark reminder of where he came from. "The ...
LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald V. Skyers completes his autobiography, "From the Banana Field to the...
RIVERSIDE - The developer of a condominium resort and marina at Big Bear Lake has sued three U.S. Forest Service employees and...
John Hunter has been a land use attorney for the majority of his career, from the state government to the Building Industry As...
It took eight months and hundreds of attorneys, but last month Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless joined forces to create...
Reuniting with old friends and colleagues, litigator James K. Lee joined the Los Angeles office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart ...
Thomas Levyn, a Beverly Hills councilman and three-time mayor, joined Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Sh...
For thousands of Armenian-Americans, New York Life Insurance Co.'s $20 million settlement with beneficiaries of World War I-er...
SAN FRANCISCO - Since Coudert Brothers became the first international law firm to open an office in Beijing 25 years ago, mor...