Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - When Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Nancy Davis leaves her position next wee...
LOS ANGELES - Kenji Ito, a Japanese-American who faced arrest and internment during World War II but went on to become a leade...
SAN FRANCISCO - Starting Monday, San Francisco Superior Court will ask lawyers for more cash when filing papers. The state Leg...
LOS ANGELES - Saying the trial was marred by both prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel, an appellate...
SAN FRANCISCO - The three San Francisco police officers accused of beating two men on Union Street last year will go to a prel...
LOS ANGELES - Tarzana lawyer and bankruptcy trustee Robert Dennis Pryce Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday to 49 counts of bankruptcy...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Service contracts often contain mechanic's liens to ensure that c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooperating with a government pollution agency doesn't necessarily constitute adequate public notice of a clea...
SACRAMENTO - Debtors will find it more difficult to hide assets from their creditors by using sham divorces following a decisi...
Litigation
Fox News Suit Opens Gates for Flood of Linguistic-Trespassing Actions
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In its widely publicized suit against comedian Al Franken, Fox News Network claims that Franken viola...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Investors' Path to Court Is Cleared a Bit
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles appeals court has created a way for unhappy investors to get around the refusal of the securitie...
LOS ANGELES - The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is paying the fees for a private judge who has issued a secret draft rul...
Personal Injury & Torts
Pastor Sues TV Station For Airing Nude Photo
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - They were two couples posing for photographs one night in the privacy of a backyard hot tub, the two women choosing to...
Criminal
Juries Often Correctly Give Police Officers Benefit of the Doubt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Everett Bobbitt - Although many observers were surprised by the outcome of the Inglewood "police-abuse" case...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeff Winikow - The amount of information available to legal practitioners is simply stagger...
Forum Column - By Leo James Terrell - As a civil rights attorney and radio journalist, I monitored the case of People v. Mo...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Robin C. Gilden and Kalyani R. Chirra - Selecting a business entity requires considering the feder...
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...