RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Richard and Agnes Wiebe, a Rancho Cucamonga couple charged with murdering their baby daughter by denying he...
LOS ANGELES - Andrew Luster's mother wants her money back. Luster, the convicted serial rapist who is in prison after being ca...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Appoints 5 Judges; 15 Since Recall Qualified
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis, continuing a flurry of judicial appointments since the recall election qualified for the ball...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's office Wednesday filed attempted extortion charges against a photog...
RIVERSIDE - Amy Prien lived in a house that was a "revolving door" for drug dealers and users, and she often slept in such a d...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for three defendants charged with assault in the Fajitagate case said Wednesday they will file malic...
Appellate Practice
ACLU Says It's Not About Davis, It's About Vote Counts
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - Three years ago, Gov. Gray Davis was an enemy of racial justice in the eyes of the A...
Technology & Science
Matchmaking Web Site Is Immune in False Posting
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Actress Chase Masterson cannot sue a matchmaking Web site for posting sexually suggestive material with her ho...
Litigation
Jury Hands Alleged Pimp $3 Million Bonus in Credit-Card Sex Dispute
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered a bank and a credit card processing company to pay thro...
LOS ANGELES - As gubernatorial candidates last week made their final decisions to join the state's recall election circus, the...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The instant that Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert announced that he woul...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Case Allocates Responsibility Between Court and Arbitrator
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - California law permits the consolidation of separate arb...
SAN BERNARDINO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed one judge to the Riverside Superior Court bench and two judges to the Sa...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Delegates OK Second-Parent Adoption
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - While most of the attention during the American Bar Association's just-concluded convention focused on attorne...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the supervised release in Soledad of B...
LOS ANGELES - New user fees and hikes in existing civil and criminal filing charges take effect this month to help bridge a $9...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired East Bay lawyer Robert Eshleman, whose elegant and concise prose was a hallmark of his firm's appellat...
Criminal
Circuit Rejects Aliens' Appeal Claiming Bias in Prosecutions
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In the past 15 years, 94 percent of the local federal public defender's clients prosecuted for illegal reentry...
Family
County OKs $1 Million Payout to Six Claiming Foster-Care Abuse
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $1 million settlement to six children who had acc...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has set an Aug. 18 hearing on the ACLU of Southern California's request for a tempor...
LOS ANGELES - A campaign to compensate hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants for their expulsion by California officials...
Judges and Judiciary
New Judge Sees Bench as Another Adventure in Life
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - Judge Roger A. Luebs is always up for a good adventure. Armed with a compass and backpack, Luebs scaled the jagged ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Kamala Harris for District Attorney campaign dismissed as a dirty trick Tuesday an anonymous complaint to ...
SACRAMENTO - In January, Gov. Gray Davis shocked the state's judicial and legal community. Not only did he propose reducing th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Delegates to the American Bar Association put the organization's final stamp Tuesday on reforms intended to st...
LOS ANGELES - A parent who returns a child in compliance with an order under the Hague Convention still can be convicted unde...
LOS ANGELES - Young Joe Hilberman was impressed mightily by the august presence of The Judge, shopping for tools, screws and ...
Focus Column Corporate Law By Thomas C. Klein Three hundred public companies, their insurers and investors recently agreed to...
Forum Column By John C. Eastman After the Nevada Supreme Court, at Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn's request, directed the Nevada Leg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. will pay $13 million to settle a three-year-old class action by 650,000 Northe...