LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Anthony Pellicano blasted federal prosecutors Wednesday for "desperately and ineffectively" trying...
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents, in the first step toward launching a court challenge, have asked the California Public Utilities Co...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court strongly indicated Wednesday that it will not order trial judges to give pro se defendants cont...
SANTA ANA - Convicted of threatening FBI agents, Erik Erskine thought he was going to spend at most a year in prison. It turns...
LOS ANGELES - Daniel Fenton, head of the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau, sounded like he was making a pitch for the O...
Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - SAN FRANCISCO - Some government lawyers toil in the relative obscurity of legislative committ...
SACRAMENTO - Two civil rights organizations and a student group Wednesday asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate Gov...
Appellate Practice
Local Courts Take on Peripheral Pooh Plots in Never-Ending Story
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - OK, children, time for a quick tour through Winnie the Pooh country to get an update on the latest le...
SANTA ANA - The head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Orange County has been tapped to help prosecute the Enron cases, prosecu...
SAN JOSE - Richard Arnason reluctantly retired from the Contra Costa County bench nine years ago but remained its most active ...
TODAY GARDENING - The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden offers " Plant Soup, Part II: More Mediterranean and Ari...
Notebook - By Pamela McLean - SAN FRANCISCO - Santos L. Reyes will spend 25 years in prison because he tried to take the writt...
SAN FRANCISCO - At about 2:45 p.m. June 21, 2000, self-proclaimed "Sausage King" Stuart Alexander activated the security camer...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Brings Objective of Fairness From DA Days
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Roger Ito set his sights on the courtroom when he was a young child. Ito looked up to Morio L. Fuku...
REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo County judges want everyone to know they did not lobby to have the Scott Peterson murder trial moved ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With election season looming, chief justices from around the nation brainstormed Tuesday on how to protect jud...
SAN FRANCISCO - In emotion-filled testimony, witnesses told a special Senate committee Tuesday that a "green wall" representin...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Davidson, 2003 DJDAR 12851 (Cal. A...
Forum Column - By Marc A. Levin and Winfield Myers - In unveiling his immigration-reform plan, President George W. Bush stated...
Judges and Judiciary
To Earn Discretion, Judges Must Stop Being Politicians
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - In a recent speech at the American Bar Association's annual meeting, Justice Anthony M. Ken...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fred Brown, who defended Cadence Design Systems Inc. in a $1 billion patent and trade-secrets trial last year ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether the federal law that bars deceptive credit practices caps...
LOS ANGELES - Private services have taken place for Ernest J. Zack, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Zack, who serv...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a racketeering claim arising from the Los Angeles Police...
LOS ANGELES - Hinshaw & Culbertson has hired three professional-liability partners from Los Angeles' Haight, Brown & B...
LOS ANGELES - A neighbors' tiff over a child's playhouse has landed in an appellate court, with justices finding Tuesday that ...
LOS ANGELES - A sweeping gag order issued at pop star Michael Jackson's court appearance Friday is unlikely to stem the rush o...
Judges and Judiciary
Recess Appointment Portends Acrimonious Wars Over Jurists
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - President Bush's decision to employ a rarely used technique to elevate a controversial Mississippi judge to a sea...
SANTA ANA - The American Bar Association discriminates against for-profit law schools, holding them to an unreachable standard...
Daniel Clivner sipped his champagne early this New Year's Eve. The Los Angeles lawyer was celebrating Time Inc.'s sale of Time...