SAN FRANCISCO - The consumer bankruptcy bar reacted with outrage Thursday to reports out of Washington that House Republicans ...
LOS ANGELES - Signaling a breakdown in the year-old attempt to settle civil litigation over the Catholic Church sexual abuse s...
WASHINGTON - Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush put his administration at the center of a...
Labor/Employment
Anti-Gay Worker Who Violates Diversity Policy May Be Fired
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Job-bias statutes frequently put employers strivi...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - "The great opportunity of the American bar is and will be to stand ... ready to protect the...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Wednesday revived claims that Disney cheated the author of the book behind "Who Framed Roger Ra...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's former inspector general warned state senators Wednesday that the new governor's appointment of R...
LOS ANGELES - Paul George Bower, a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, died at home Dec....
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors began deliberating Wednesday over whether San Francisco adoption and health officials intentionally dec...
SANTA ANA - Conservative icon Kenneth Starr will teach an advanced constitutional law class at Chapman University in Orange, ...
LOS ANGELES - When Santa Monica family law attorney Ruth L. Estep learned that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John W. Ouderk...
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...