LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for victims of alleged sexual abuse by priests are charging that Cardinal Roger Mahony assigned a prie...
LOS ANGELES - Justice sometimes calls for creativity, says Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard E. Denner. Sitting in a re...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Thursday ordered officials to report in six months on whether Ruby the African elephant has successfully...
REDLANDS - Bowing to pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, officials in Redlands have removed a cross symbol that ...
Forum Column - By Barry A. Fisher and Vartkes Yeghiayan - Eighty-nine years ago this month, on April 24, 1915, the Ottoman aut...
SAN BERNARDINO - Esther Zimmerman, a former San Bernardino County bar association president who was known for her positive out...
LOS ANGELES - Services were held Saturday for Walter Leighton, a probate litigator and a founding member of the Cowboy Lawyers...
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court indicated Wednesday that it will require the federal government to provide either...
Administrative/Regulatory
Dual Roles of Attorney Might Violate Rights to Due Process
By Columnist
Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Ethan P. Schulman - City attorneys' offices, county counsel and other public law offices in...
Forum Column - By Andrew D. Hyman - Rarely do public-policy matters attract such strange bedfellows. But when it comes to the ...
Juvenile
Floundering Juvenile-Justice System Needs Complete, Immediate Overhaul
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leonard Edwards - No one could watch the recently released videotaped beating of a youth in the "care" of th...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge from Pennsylvania Democrats who argued that the state's rece...
Constitutional Law
Demonstrators Protest Handling of Enemy Combatants by U.S.
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Wednesday's Supreme Court hearings on the president's authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens as enemy com...
Large Firms
Wanted: Irate Law Firm Seeks Leaker of Voting-Machine Memos
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The multinational Jones Day law firm is hunting for the leaker or leakers that it believes gave the O...
Judges and Judiciary
Supervising Judge Guides West District Courts
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Sitting in her spacious chambers at the Santa Monica Courthouse, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Linda K. Lefko...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man who was refused life insurance because he had just traveled to Israel sued 14 insurance compan...
Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Jeffrey S. Galvin - For telephone solicitors, what a difference a year makes. Regulatory ch...
Public Interest
Monitor Blasts Prisons for Ignoring Duty To Counties
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal monitor has called for formal court hearings "to get to the bottom" of the state's delay in repaying...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Must Not Horn in on President's Powers Outside U.S.
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John S. Baker Jr. - A Washington Post report on the Guantnamo detainee cases, argued last week in the U.S. S...
LOS ANGELES - Sanford "Sandy" Litvack, former vice chair of media giant Walt Disney Co., will join Washington, D.C.-based Hoga...
Criminal
'Eternal Optimist' Ran Marathons, Protected Children
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Kennis A. Clark, a 16-year deputy with the Riverside district attorney's office, remembered for prosecuting cases ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County has lost its second court battle in three months over cutting funds to rehabilitation facilit...
SAN DIEGO - A day after being released from prison, an emotional Adam Riojas came to California Western School of Law on Tuesd...
SANTA ANA - The orange socks that made a suburban San Diego band director see red - and subsequently throttle his teenager bar...
Constitutional Law
Performers Join Legal Battle Over Profane-Speech Ruling
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - Opening a new front in the culture wars, several Hollywood performers have stepped into a potential legal battle...
Personal Injury & Torts
Media-Friendly Style Got Geragos Kicked Off Case
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Mark J. Geragos' coziness with the media got him the job as Michael Jackson's criminal defense lawyer. Ultimatel...
Focus Column - International Law - By Peter S. Selvin and Melanie J. Lerch - In cases involving foreign parties, U.S. counsel ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James W. Stewart, a family law expert who wrote two books on the subject but ...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday he has appointed Andrea Hoch, formerly chief assistant attorney gener...
Appellate Practice
Justices Will Consider Taxpayer Reports Issue, Not Prayer Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether taxpayers battling government tax assessments are entitled...