LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Bar Association officials were a little embarrassed last year, after they decided to encourag...
WASHINGTON - Ruling in the case of a California death-row inmate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday continued its strict interpreta...
Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - Sentences that are longer in years than a human can actually live are emblematic of t...
LOS ANGELES - With the forfeiture of the Cannabis Resource Center's $1.2 million building and other assets hanging in the bala...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University School of Law is launching the first law journal available exclusively online. While a half-...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a small luncheon gathering last week at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, historian David McCullou...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that an East Bay cancer patient who won a $1.5 million fraud judgment ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors Tuesday backed an ambitious lawsuit by City Attorney Dennis Herrera against contract...
SACRAMENTO - California's courts are being hurt by the state's budget crisis, and lawmakers must act quickly to prevent furthe...
PRIESTS CHARGED - Two former Catholic priests and an ex-seminarian were charged late Tuesday with multiple counts of child mol...
LOS ANGELES - After the Gulf War, the first President Bush pledged to prosecute Saddam Hussein for war crimes. But he never fo...
MOORPARK - Simi Valley Harley-Davidson leased 19,000 square feet of retail space at 6190 Condor Drive from J&L Investment...
Forum Column - By Angela M. Bradstreet and Gowon Song - In 1998, two U.S. Supreme Court cases, Burlington Industries v. Ell...
International
Contesting Jurisdiction Can Be Good Way to Avoid Costly Suit
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Focus Column - International Law - By Allison S.Y. Chang - For nonresident multinational holding companies with a subsidiary o...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It appears that Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-L.A., is busy once again figuring out ways to further...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for four of five San Francisco police officers charged with obstruction of justice launched their att...
SACRAMENTO - The California Witness Protection Program is essential for prosecuting gang killings and should continue to rece...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Igoe Jr., a former Reid & Priest chairman who led the New York firm's merger with San Francisco's ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to take another look at the authority of police officers who have stopped a vehic...
SAN FRANCISCO - Injunctions aren't one size fits all. In a just-published ruling, a state appellate court has ruled that an i...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice's Estranged Wife Prevails in Disqualification
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Ethics isn't an abstraction for Justice Ignazio Ruvolo, of San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal. It's ...
Government
L.A.'s the Place for Constitutionally Aggrieved, Litigious Protesters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - How will the war against Iraq ultimately play out on the streets of America? More parochially, how wi...
LA HABRA - Residents hoping to block big-box retailer Costco from building a new store here have taken their fight to court, f...
MARINA DEL REY - A 55-year-old Marina del Rey man has pleaded no contest to a hate crime after women of Middle Eastern descent...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde admitted "bad judgment" Monday in an evidentiary hearing b...
LOS ANGELES - They didn't have television - live or otherwise - when drafters framed the Geneva Conventions in the blasted-out...
SAN FRANCISCO - Documents governing funding for the eventual closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant contain a poiso...
Judges and Judiciary
Bench Is Place That He Was Meant to Be, Judge Believes
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Judge Rodney G. Forneret has a smooth style on the bench that encourages lawyers on both sides of the counsel ta...
Arcadia plaintiffs' attorney Jay S. McClaugherty knew he had his work cut out for him during a recent trial in Rancho Cucamong...
After years of battling each other over patent disputes, two rival surgical-robot makers are putting aside their differences t...