WASHINGTON - On March 9, Rep. Ron Lewis, R-Ky., with the support of 19 of his Republican colleagues, introduced a bill that wo...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar will employ an expert to adjust scores for 700 applicants who were unable to take the last part of...
SACRAMENTO - A trial judge approved a settlement Wednesday between a lawyer accused of abusing the state's Unfair Competition...
LOS ANGELES - The 1996 Telecommunications Act allows states to prohibit cities from entering local telephone markets, the U.S....
Appellate Practice
State High Court Agrees to Consider Punitive Damages
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take a closer look at punitive damages, marking the first t...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court judges ironed out some procedural wrinkles Wednesday in two lawsuits seeking to v...
Appellate Practice
In This Country, Nobody Wants to Take the Blame for Anything
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - What do master terrorist Osama bin Laden and the nutritionally sinister cheeseburger have in common? ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case pitting the public's right to know against a defendant's right to a fair trial, a defense attorney ...
LOS ANGELES - A pilgrimage to see Eliot L. Spitzer, the activist state attorney general of New York, has become an essential j...
WASHINGTON - Atheist Michael Newdow of Sacramento turned in a dazzling performance Wednesday as he tried to convince the Supre...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city of San Francisco is not without allies in its defiant stand against the state's marriage laws. But th...
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - The five-justice majority in recent 11th Amendment and Commerce Clause rulings has reli...
Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Grace Suarez - If you are like many defense lawyers practicing juvenile law, you have a numbe...
Forum Column - By Charles L. Lindner - ABC's latest contribution to crime drama, "The District Attorney," premiered at 10 p.m....
SACRAMENTO - Three bills that would crack down on immigration consultants who prey upon desperate people with dreams of citize...
SACRAMENTO - Two measures that would grant members of the news media greater access to state prison inmates cleared key commit...
LOS ANGELES - The Food and Drug Administration's order to drug makers to slap warning labels on antidepressants including Paxi...
WASHINGTON - Debate on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage continued in the Senate on Tuesday, as Republicans and D...
Product Liability
L.A. Jury Awards $58 Million to Man Burned in Work Accident
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Tuesday awarded a Texas man $58 million for life-threatening burns he suffe...
Intellectual Property
Suit Seeks Public Access For 'Orphan Works' of Art
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig is taking another stab at overturning a federal law that extended copyr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and air quality regulators announced a deal Tuesday that may help reshape the market establi...
LOS ANGELES - Tough luck if you are caught driving drunk, even in a speed trap. That's the message from an appellate court Mon...
SAN FRANCISCO - In heated, sometimes humorous jabs, members of an 11-judge appellate panel Tuesday wrangled with each other as...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Succeeds at Art of Persuasion, Lawyers Say
By David Houston
SANTA BARBARA - Not long after Judge Denise de Bellefeuille took a seat on the Santa Barbara Superior Court, she dreamed that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lot of lawyers wish their disgruntled ex-clients would just shut up and go away. Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. did ...
SACRAMENTO - In his annual State of the Judiciary speech to the Legislature, Chief Justice Ronald M. George urged lawmakers Tu...
LOS ANGELES - The double murder conviction of an African-American gang member from Pasadena has been thrown out because the ju...
Focus Column - International Law - By Gabriele Mezger-Lashly - When binational marriages dissolve, one parent often returns to...
Forum Column - By Sasha Abramsky - Since the 2000 election debacle, an increasing number of politicians and activists has been...
Focus Column - Law Practice - By David Michail - Since Jan. 1, legal professionals must be aware of the new Controlling the As...