After wading through a host of legal challenges, bankrupt retailer Kmart Corp. has received approval to sell its Bluelight.com...
Actor and Republican activist Arnold Schwarzenegger will join Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn and other leaders on a business mis...
SAN FRANCISCO - Internal investigators for the state Department of Corrections spent years putting together criminal cases aga...
A $12.5 billion debt offering has closed, giving the state of California an infusion of money to pay its bills. The first phas...
Environmental
Counsel Must Advise Potential Buyers About New CERCLA Liability Defenses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Catherine W. Johnson - New CERCLA amendments provide potential purchasers with two new d...
LOS ANGELES - Eleanor Hunter and Michael Latin were 400 miles away when four former Symbionese Liberation Army soldiers pleade...
LOS ANGELES - Defense counsel Jane Renahan jumped out of her seat as the prosecutor asked its star witness, Cody Ward, to desc...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Friday reduced the felony grand theft conviction of former Deputy District Attorney Pete...
Criminal
Lawyer Plans to Challenge Judge in Second Death-Penalty Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A defense attorney in a capital murder case says he plans to challenge a trial judge's decision allowing the same ...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The new "Brownfield" amendments don't clarify CERCLA. Instead, they ma...
OAKLAND - The Women Lawyers of Alameda County has launched a fund-raising campaign to convert a snack vending area in the Hayw...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge, War Hero Credits Military for Turning His Life Around
By Anne La Jeunesse
FULLERTON - For a lot of people, a 1.5 high-school grade-point average and a youthful arrest for lobbing beer cans out of a ca...
In 1995, rainmaker Debra Pole broke away from Ralph Campillo's Santa Monica boutique, taking the largest firm client with her ...
LOS ANGELES - Victor Maurice Hoard, who is serving a three-strikes life sentence for robbing a jewelry store, can at least say...
LOS ANGELES - Wrapping up five weeks of testimony, the lawyer for sports superagent Leigh Steinberg told a federal jury that ...
SAN DIEGO - After deliberating for three hours, the jury of seven men and five women considering the fate of Kristin M. Rossum...
CRESCENT CITY - In his leisure time, Superior Court Judge Robert Weir kayaks the Smith River in serene Del Norte County. In co...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Changes should be made to child-support laws to eliminate injustice to fathers. ...
Forum Column - By Garry Mathiason and Traci Beach - Although SB1661 may give employees some security because it provides up to...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Compassion Got Him Into, Out of Scandal
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
REDLANDS - Craig Kamansky had an unsettling experience last year when he served as a juror deliberating on a civil case. "Some...
SAN DIEGO - While a jury deliberates whether to convict Kristin M. Rossum of murdering her husband, she's free to eat lunch wi...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an opinion drenched with sarcasm, a federal appeals panel skewered Santa Ana attorney James Toledano on Thu...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Jonathan R. Flora - Time and again, the IRS has used the "hobby loss" rule to disallow losses from...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles-based Western Center on Law and Poverty argued Thursday the so-called "man in the house" visits ...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - As an associate working long hours in the trenches, you might think that, once yo...
Criminal
Two Virginia Counties Will Get First Crack at Trials for Snipers
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The two suspects collared in the serial sniper killings here will be tried first in two Virginia counties where t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld San Francisco's 1973 ban on write-in votes in loca...
Appellate Practice
Supreme Court Will Reconsider Its Stay Of Man's Execution
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today will reconsider at its weekly conference the last-minute stay of execution it granted lat...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Years ago, people labeled them "NIMBYs" - those who opposed local development projects b...
OAKLAND - The Women Lawyers of Alameda County are looking forward by looking back, honoring the newest women on the bench as w...