LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Thursday ordered a former Los Angeles Times reporter-turned-author to testify Tuesday ab...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan may be out of office, but he's not out to pasture. The...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court refused Thursday to block a trial judge's ruling that San Francisco must end a progra...
Law Practice
Ken Starr: Legal Scholar or Political Operative, or Both?
By David Houston
MALIBU - The political operative Dick Morris likes to say that there are two Bill Clintons: Saturday Night Bill and Sunday Mor...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consider reinstating the convictions of three Rampart police off...
LOS ANGELES - In show business, the term "break a leg" means good luck. For H. Don Christian, a shattered ankle while performi...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ellen L. Chaitin walked into her courtroom one day expecting intellectual r...
Law Practice
Mediation Transforms Lives, Giving People Freedom to Move On
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - The jokes about lawyers are based on a falsehood. Society wrongly determined years ago that ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi - Although the Legislature passed a number of laws this year that would h...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Counsel Urges Judge's Censure for Inappropriate Remarks
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance should "disregard" a three-judge panel's findings and publicly censure Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review the case of an Orange County millionaire who was rebuk...
LOS ANGELES - The fraud prosecution of a woman arrested by federal agents in a controversial crackdown on Social Security chea...
SAN FRANCISCO - A flasher who exposed himself to two young girls at the same time can't be doubly punished for indecent exposu...
Constitutional Law
Closed 'Fajitagate' Hearing Questioned by Attorneys
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - First Amendment attorneys cried foul Wednesday over San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ksenia "Kay" Tsenin's o...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco traffic commissioner Wednesday gave the city the green light to continue ticketing motorists w...
SANTA ANA - A federal judge has increased a jury award from $43.5 million to $54 million against medical manufacturer U.S. Sur...
Entertainment & Sports
Heartland Attorney General Ashcroft Goes Hollywood, at Least for a Day
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Three weeks before the presidential election, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft came to the enter...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer who markets himself as a skilled defender of employee rights violated state ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's tentative order to make public the personnel files of Catholic priests in Northern California civil ...
Constitutional Law
Internet Providers Don't Have To Reveal Subscribers' Names
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider a case that barred the recording industry from forcing Int...
Judges and Judiciary
Budget Cuts, ADR Could Undermine State's Judicial System
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Terry W. Bird - California's courts are besieged by a storm no less powerful than the severe hurricanes that...
Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - In a few days, the California political world may erupt. We are facing permanent destruction o...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The court in In re Marriage of Iredale , 2004 DJDAR 9...
Constitutional Law
New Gender Law Undermines Challenge From School District
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - A newly signed law redefining gender undermines the Westminster School District's controversial challenge of a tra...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys asked a judge Tuesday to seal transcripts of grand jury testimony against Phil Spector, arguin...
SAN JOSE - Two Bay Area attorneys have been arrested as part of separate alleged auto insurance fraud scams in which chiroprac...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the sale of land surrounding a controversial Christian cross in a city-owned pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors told a jury Tuesday that self-proclaimed "Sausage King" Stuart Alexander laid a clear trail of ev...
SAN FRANCISC - Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyers in San Francisco are battling FBI agents in Texas who seized Internet s...
SAN DIEGO -- Three animal rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to overturn a City Council decision designed to restore sanita...