LOS ANGELES - A Catholic priest pleaded not guilty at a court arraignment Thursday to charges of sexually abusing three teenag...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a proposal that seeks to provide hate-crime victims and their families a protec...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed measures this week that were intended to protect the rights of homeowners and d...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial is planned today for Gordon Kennedy Wright, a former vice president of the State Bar from in 1970-71 ...
SAN JOSE - In an historic ruling, a federal judge Thursday ordered an Ohio-based maker of electronic voting machines to pay da...
SAN DIEGO - The Real Deal turned out to be anything but in the company's video showing the destruction of toy cars that had be...
Judges and Judiciary
Electrophysics Whiz Applies Sharp Intellect to Appeals
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - When you ask Orange County attorneys what they think of Justice Raymond J. Ikola, one adjective consistently comes...
SACRAMENTO - Visitors to Justice Coleman Blease's chambers may notice the same message on both sides of the door: "The sign on...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco doctor accused of wrongly treating patients with alternative therapies got a bum deal when med...
SACRAMENTO - Advocates for the elderly hailed a bill Thursday signed by the governor they hope will encourage lawyers to pursu...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lockyer Says Proposition 64 Would Hurt Californians
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups Thursday launched a spirited defense of the state's Un...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Diego attorney apparently overwhelmed by a family crisis is now facing discipline for abandoning a death...
Criminal
AG Agrees to Prosecute Judge For Campaign Fund Violations
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA MARIA - Despite initial reservations, the California attorney general's office has agreed to prosecute Santa Barbara Cou...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Fe Springs attorney Joel Beckman refers to his most memorable matter before Los Angeles Superior Court Jud...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Campbell' Provides Road Map For Appealing Punitive Award
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Laura Grisolano and Catherine Barrad - For defendants hit by big punitive-damages awards, the U...
Criminal
Privatizing State's Prisons Will Lower Costs, Improve Rehabilitation Efforts
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Alexander Tabarrok - It's going to take more than a giant garage sale to balance California's budget. In one...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach asked a judge Wednesday to let him present evidence in Robert Blake's u...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' Web site offered a new service Wednesday, allowing easy public access t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A team of lawyers from Morrison & Foerster won a $145 million patent settlement for client Nikon Corp. of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge who told potential jurors to lie if they harbored racist sentiments so they could be exc...
LOS ANGELES - A Loyola Law School symposium that is designed to "get beyond the sound bite" will feature an array of experts a...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Rossi, a veteran assistant clerk and administrator at the California Supreme Court in San Francisco, will...
Technology & Science
Rescuing Broadband in America Requires Following New Path
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Reza Dibadj - U.S. broadband policy is broken. Increasingly falling behind a number of European and Asian co...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Nominees Should Apply Law, Not Impose Beliefs
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - Advocates across the political spectrum, from the Family Research Council to the Allian...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to raise public awareness of a growing international problem, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan announced ...
LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the local chapter of the St. Thomas More Law Society have rej...
Litigation
Officials Agree to Cover Courthouse Inscription
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Bowing to pressure from a civil-rights group, officials have decided to cover up an inscription in Riverside's cou...
Government
Devil's in Details: Presidential Candidates Fear Their Own Free Speech
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Nobody's saying so, but the intent behind the controversial 32-page agreement on the three presidenti...
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer Nikolai Tehin learned from his office manager in 2002 that his client tr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer featured as one of the poster boys in the Proposition 64 campaign to restrict consumer protection law...