Judges and Judiciary
Kids in Dependency Court Exhaust But Touch Judge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - When Gov. Gray Davis appointed federal prosecutor Cynthia A. Bashant to the San Diego Superior Court in 2000, all ...
SAN RAFAEL - A black robe and a bland expression comprise a judge's official faade. What lies within? Marin County Superior Co...
Column By Garry Abrams - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's unusual public memo on why he would not recuse himself fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court held Thursday that free speech rights extend beyond demonstrators' ability to address ...
WASHINGTON - In flatly rejecting a request to recuse himself from a case involving his friend Vice President Dick Cheney, Supr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to review the issue of whether the state's tough new ethical rule...
Criminal
Five Years After His Murder, Police Look for Jurist's Killer
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Former colleagues of Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H. George Taylor say they still have a hard ti...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a petition Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the authority of...
Civil Rights
Law Banning Affirmative Action Seems To Legalize Same-Sex Partners' Unions
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Forum Column - By Jack D. Forbes - Can anyone deny that to halt a civil marriage because of one or both partner's sex is in di...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Once again, the eyes of the world are focused on a brutal and devastating terrorist attack o...
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - The 4th District Court of Appeal recently filed its opinio...
Book Review - By Daniel A. Olivas - Critics of the American legal system have long pointed a collective accusatory finger at t...
LOS ANGELES - William Cottrell, who was indicted this week for the August firebombings of sport utility vehicles and Hummers i...
Litigation
Judge Rejects Class Status for Steeltex Faulty-Tires Lawsuit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - A Riverside Superior Court judge Wednesday refused to certify as a class action a lawsuit claiming Bridgestone/Firesto...
LOS ANGELES - The Securities and Exchange Commission went to court Tuesday to force the chief outside counsel of a Pasadena ho...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Calls Downward-Departing Sentences Courageous
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday told a congressional panel that federal judges who depart down...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Drunken-Driving Case Moves to L.A. Superior Court
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - The drunken-driving case of a former Orange County presiding judge, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a t...
LOS ANGELES - Several Los Angeles lawyers quietly have launched a letter-writing campaign on behalf of federal Judge Manuel L....
Entertainment & Sports
In 2030, Lawyers Will Continue to Make Century City Uninhabitable
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The gulf between legal reality and legal television drama is starkly delineated this week with the pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to add another layer of protection for investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission has issued ne...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco has reacted to bias claims from convicted heroin dealer...
LOS ANGELES - Urban farmers on Tuesday gained a victory when a judge halted their eviction from a 14-acre garden in South Los ...
Forum Column - By Karen Bond - The press announced with glee that Martha Stewart is going to prison. What a travesty! High-pro...
Forum Column - By MKB Darmer - The conviction of Martha Stewart and her former broker, Peter Bacanovic, on March 5 was a spect...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal Oldman - In the matter of American Contractors Indemnity Co. v. Saladino, B1585...
Government
Technological Advances in Voting May Cause More Problems Than They Solve
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Forum Column - By David Mark - First-year medical students are often told, "First, do no harm." Elections officials should hee...
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Tuesday won a default judgment that could be worth $1 million against a c...
WASHINGTON - The issue of judges who "downwardly depart" from federal sentencing guidelines continues to be a sore point in re...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Q. Todd Dickinson has been named General Electric Co.'s vice ...
LOS ANGELES - Donald C. Petersen, founding partner of the Glendale law firm Knapp, Petersen & Clarke, died March 4 at Tarz...