LOS ANGELES - "This is the most incredibly stressful experience of my life," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris s...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - After a turn-of-the-century decline, the nation's 30-year-old biotechnology indus...
WASHINGTON - In the hopes of overcoming a one-vote defeat on class action reform legislation last October, Sen. Majority Leade...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Despite losing nine attorneys in the past year, San Diego-based Gray Carey Ware & Freidenric...
SAN JOSE - The days of large salary increases have apparently come to an end for Santa Clara County's deputy county counsels. ...
Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - He has been dead 10 years. But President Nixon has an eerie capacity to make news. Nixo...
Product Liability
9th Circuit Won't Reconsider Ruling Against Gunmaker
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Only the intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court can prevent handgun maker Glock Inc. from facing its day in fe...
Real Estate/Development
Both Developers, No-Growthers Can Find Middle Ground
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Call it Geronimo's revenge, or Chochise's, or Crazy Horse's. All of them strongly resist...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Jessica A. Herthel - In a far-reaching new opinion that could have im...
Labor/Employment
Discovery: It's Just as Hard to Be a Writer as It Is to Be a Lawyer
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dylan Schaffer - I did not intend to be a lawyer. I went to law school because I wanted to study law. I neve...
Employment Column - By Lin Meyer - "Independent contractor." California's Employment Development Department essentially says t...
Appellate Practice
Appeals Court Frees Man Who Won't Cut His Hair
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Native American man whose sentence was prolonged because he refused to cut his hair walked out of prison Thursda...
SAN FRANCISCO - Forest Service fireman Joel Alcala, 23, had oral sex with a 17-year-old girl in the Siskiyou County town of Ha...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Says He Never Meant to Embarrass or Harass Women
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court John D. Harris testified Thursday that he may have been "insensitive" to some women i...
SANTA ANA - A La Habra ordinance prohibiting lap dances is legal, a federal judge has ruled, throwing out a lawsuit filed by t...
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury unanimously held Thursday that the diabetes medication Rezulin causes liver damage but decli...
LOS ANGELES - Juvenile dependency courts may delegate to a minor's legal guardian the authority to decide whether a parent may...
SAN FRANCISCO - Consumers beware: While many dealers market pricey service agreements as "extended warranties," there's a big ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday slapped a pocket tool company with a $13 million judgment for labeli...
SAN FRANCISCO - Closing the two-month conspiracy and money laundering trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko...
LOS ANGELES - County regulations barring pushcart taco stands from obtaining licenses because they are not motor vehicles are ...
SAN DIEGO - An Escondido performing arts hall must pay a $13,000 damage award to a quadriplegic woman whose service dog was de...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco schools will net $3.4 million from a Texas technology company after the district exposed a consp...
SAN FRANCISCO - A military judge in the court martial of a Guantanamo Bay translator is scheduled to decide today whether auth...
LOS ANGELES - Global Crossing founder Gary Winnick reneged on an agreement to give his ex-partner a 15 percent cut of any vent...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court struggled Thursday with the widely watched case of a 15-year-old student jailed f...
SACRAMENTO - U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell pauses frequently before speaking and chooses his words carefully, as if tipt...
MURRIETA - Riverside Superior Court Judge Rodney L. Walker loves adventure almost as much as he loves the law. When his wife h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Wednesday that a defense lawyer in a 1987 double-murder trial n...
SAN FRANCISCO - Busting bad patents was supposed to be easier and cheaper to do these days. In 1999, Congress created a low-co...