LOS ANGELES - A Libyan detainee at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, filed a billion-dollar civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against Presiden...
WASHINGTON - While expressing concern that President Bush's proposal to give millions of undocumented workers temporary legal ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court indicated in arguments Wednesday that it will clear the air by allowing Southern Californi...
LOS ANGELES - Thomas J. Nolan, the veteran trial lawyer and rainmaker who has personified Howrey Simon Arnold & White's Ca...
Judges and Judiciary
Courts Make 2003 Interesting Year for Contractual Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - This is Part 2 of a review of important arbitration deci...
WASHINGTON - Handing police a new crime-fighting weapon, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that motorists' Fourth Amendment righ...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would extend the statute of limitations for prosecution of child molestation cases at least until the...
SACRAMENTO - Fred Main, senior vice president and general counsel of the California Chamber of Commerce, has left the business...
LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney was arrested along with three others Tuesday on charges of taking part in an auto insurance f...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that consumers cannot sue regional telephone companies claiming the companie...
Large Firms
Young Litigator Touched Many Lives With Public Interest Dedication, Intellect
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Paul Alan Davis, a budding trial attorney at Los Angeles' Munger Tolles & Olson whom colleagues describe as ...
Agriculture
Jurist Tosses Pickers' Suit Over Tasting Pesticide-Sprayed Fruit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - A Riverside Superior Court judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by grape harvesters who claimed supervisors at one of ...
SACRAMENTO - Another attempt to reform the state's unfair competition laws failed Tuesday in the Legislature and a consumer gr...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that it will not allow a paraplegic who had to crawl up a courthouse staircas...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Jerome Farris dislikes having it pointed out that he was the first black person appointed to the 9th U.S...
SANTA BARBARA - Michael Jackson's scheduled arraignment Friday on child-molestation charges will not be televised, broadcasted...
Forum Column - By Robert F. Turner - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals got it wrong again last month when it held in Gh...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - The court in In re Marriage of Tydlas...
Forum Column - By Sidney Morse - Concern for the American worker must become a top priority to policy-makers, business leaders...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge declined Monday to block new tests off the California coast of a high-frequency sonar system i...
LOS ANGELES - An 18-page questionnaire aimed at gauging whether potential jurors have been tainted by pretrial publicity in th...
Judges and Judiciary
Some Lawyers Call Jurist Decisive; Others Find Her Difficult
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - If you're headed to Department K in the Compton Courthouse, you might consider, first, leaving early enough to a...
Criminal
Veteran San Bernardino Prosecutor Will Retire
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - David Whitney, a veteran San Bernardino County prosecutor who has secured 105 murder and manslaughter convict...
SAN FRANCISCO - Worrying yourself sick about job security in a grim economy does not qualify as a workers' compensation injury...
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature approved an initiative Monday for the November ballot that would give Californians a consti...
SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime deputy public defender has agreed to settle two lawsuits by tenants who claimed he failed to repair...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO - After graduating from Hastings College in 1983, Marie Weiner moved to San Diego with her husband to look...
Criminal
Mad Dog v. Jacko Wacko: 'Dumb and Dumber' Comes to Trial Court
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Finally, we have proof of something that many of us have long suspected. Celebrity trials do in fac...
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors returned to work Monday at San Francisco's Hall of Justice with smiles on their faces and a new bo...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than $2 billion will be paid to Northern Californians suffering from asbestos-related harm after a bankru...