Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Caseload Reflects Economy's Effect on Families
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Anthony S. Jones began presiding over domestic-violence restraining orde...
Appellate Practice
Phone Providers Must Make Their 'Slamming' Clearer
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court reinstated a fraud lawsuit Thursday against AT&T Corp., saying that when the company ...
LOS ANGELES - Movie producer Bo Zenga has sued imprisoned sleuth Anthony Pellicano and the police officer suspected of feeding...
LOS ANGELES - Last October, Los Angeles County jail inmate Ki Chul Hong was stabbed to death and stuffed into a laundry bin in...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plum growers still have a shot at ending mandatory state-run marketing campaigns, the California Supreme Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter E. Scheer is an attorney and former newspaper publisher who has fought for open government - and once su...
Appellate Practice
New Rule Gives Lawyers More Flexibility in Choosing Citations
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - In the impassioned debate that surrounded the U....
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Mitchell C. Tilner - The state Supreme Court's recent decision in MacKinnon v. Truck Ins....
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration Law Shortchanges Consumers, Small Businesses
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William G. Mitchell - When well-intentioned legislators enact legislation without examining the full extent ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A scene remarkable for its comity, given its participants and its subject matter, was played out late last mon...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Tuesday he plans to sue Enron Corp. for allegedly manipulating the California ...
Were this an episode of "The People's Court," a lawsuit involving electrocuted Utah cows might be called "The Case of the Grou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent attorney Martin Majestic has left Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner's Palo Alto o...
LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys asked the state Supreme Court Wednesday to reverse a $150,000 judgment awarded because they allege...
LOS ANGELES - A retired Catholic priest accused of repeatedly fondling an incarcerated teenager in Central Juvenile Hall turne...
SAN FRANCISCO - William "Bill" Murphy, a gruff former San Francisco police officer who became a witty and successful criminal ...
Litigation
Verdict Reveals Partial Victory For Flesh Club
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Capping a long-running legal fight between a nude cabaret and San Bernardino, a Superior Court jury Wednesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jesse Markham, the head of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's antitrust group and one of the Bay Area's most...
Law Practice
Down and Out in Los Angeles: The Latest Thrill Ride for Attorneys
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - It is a strange and troubling time in Los Angeles Lawyerland, the legal theme park wher...
SAN FRANCISCO - Explanations for the vanishing trial abound. Judges, lawyers and professors report that state and federal cour...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to seize a share of punitive damages awards may net as little as $60 million fo...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Phillip R. Maltin and Jerry Balk - The personalities of certain prospective jurors make for esp...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - In caring for 30,000 children, Los Angeles is home to one of the largest foster-care ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $2.25 million jury award to Beverly Hills attorney and businessman Leonar...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors didn't have all the facts when they hit attorney Milton Grimes with a $1.25 million legal malpractice jud...
Constitutional Law
Need for 'Miranda' Warnings Isn't Age-Dependent, Court Says
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police officers don't necessarily have to take into account a ...
LOS ANGELES - Litigants who submit evidence for mediation may not be able to keep the information secret later unless they pre...
LOS ANGELES - In a published opinion, the 2nd District Court of Appeals has ruled that the protections afforded under the Stra...
SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest chicken producer will have to defend calling its food "all natural," as a result of a stat...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors leaked information about a grand-jury investigation into civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman's tax af...