SAN FRANCISCO - The practice of indefinitely locking Pelican Bay State Prison inmates in their cells based on their race has ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass is leaving its office and signature rooftop bocce ball court on Kearny Stre...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers Entering Some Courts Can Get in Express Line
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - In today's uncertain national security climate, security has never been tighter at California's courthouses. ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Panel Lets Kin Pursue Suit Against Police Unit
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...
Forum Column - By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin - This fall, HALT - An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform - r...
LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...
SUSPENSIONS Germano, Richard John , Rancho Cucamonga Guzzetta, Rudy David , San Jose Honish, Kalieh Rie , Montebello Mantle, G...
SAN FRANCISCO - Skipping court while out on bail is a big no-no. That's what burglary suspect Daniel Walker found out Thursda...
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Russian software company accused of circumventing copyright protections admitted in cl...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the largest individual second-hand smoking award in the United States...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has recruited antitrust partner David R. Garcia from O'Melv...
LOS ANGELES - Proposition 36, the state law that dictates treatment, not prison, for drug addicts, should have kept David Niss...
LOS ANGELES - An 87-year-old woman's quest to recover six Gustav Klimt paintings, which she claims were stolen from her family...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jilted Lover Sues Priest, Claiming Custodial Abandonment
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Already bedeviled by a child molestation scandal, the local archdiocese of the Catholic Church was on the hot...
Forum Column - By Dan Halpern and Linda Martorana - Why is San Mateo County the only Bay Area county without a public defender...
SACRAMENTO - Put your ear to the ground around the state Capitol these days and along with the grumbling over California's $2...
Forum Column - By Earl Klein - The battle rages on over separation of church and state. This time the conflict is about the Te...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A jury ruled Thursday that a diet pill made by San Diego-based Metabolife International was not responsible...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Huey Percy Shepard has resigned from the State Bar. Charges pendi...
LOS ANGELES - Many of Orange resident Sandra Guzman's friends and family gave her gift certificates as wedding presents when s...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced former county toxicologist Kristin Rossum to spend the rest of her life ...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - United Airlines, which has lost $4 billion since the beginning of 2001, recently was tu...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The celebration of the New Year traditionally involves p...
TODAY ART - Sixspace Gallery in Los Angeles unbuckles its swashes and proudly displays " Pirate Booty: the Arrrt of Mates &am...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The holiday season often encourages individuals to reflect on the past...
LOS ANGELES - Complaints against police officers must be kept secret even during officer disciplinary hearings, a state appell...
TUSTIN - An Orange County Superior Court jury has ordered Commonwealth Energy Corp. to pay $2.7 million to 15 former stock sal...
BERKELEY - Veteran law professor and law librarian Robert Berring was named interim dean of Boalt Hall School of Law on Wedne...
LOS ANGELES - Supik Indrawati, an Indonesian woman, spent two years working as the virtual slave of a Palos Verdes couple, eve...