LOS ANGELES - John Gordon Jones, the Los Angeles computer executive who beat sexual assault charges in the so-called "limousin...
SAN FRANCISCO - A juvenile defendant, who was a fugitive when he allegedly killed a San Francisco Housing Authority worker nea...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing 11 victims of an India-to-Berkeley human trafficking ring filed a 24-count civil suit Wed...
SAN FRANCISCO - Patent attorney Jerry Voight has spent most of his 37-year legal career practicing in an area so obscure and s...
LOS ANGELES - Philip L. Siracuse, a litigation partner at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in downtown Los Angeles, died Tuesda...
SAN DIEGO - The president of the science supply company where Gregory T. de Villers worked testified Wednesday that he became ...
SIMI VALLEY - The night filled with beer and shots of tequila at an Oxnard bar ended in tragedy for two teen-agers. After Patr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California judge has refused to take further action to enforce two recent orders that environmental...
Labor/Employment
Court Examines Meaning of 'Religious Creed' in State Discrimination Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robyn Babcock - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Federal Law Pre-empts Construction-Defect Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Linda C. Fritz - In Edward D. Basura Jr. v. U.S. Home Corp., B151131 (Cal.App. May 31, 2002), the int...
Forum Column - By Francisco Lobaco - As the ink dries on the last of the 264 bills Gov. Gray Davis vetoed in 2002, a review o...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The victims of our system of divorce are the children. They are put into situations over w...
SANTA ANA - Appeals court Justice Richard M. Aronson turned on to law when he was 12 after watching the 1959 Otto Preminger cl...
LOS ANGELES - Five inches made the difference between 36-year-old Jian Zhong Yang walking away from a car accident and being l...
SAN DIEGO - A paramedic who vainly tried to revive Kristin M. Rossum's husband testified Tuesday that the woman's behavior dur...
SAN FRANCISCO - On June 30, 1971 - the day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that newspapers could continue publishing the top ...
LOS ANGELES - In 1999, a political reform group looked around California and saw influence-peddling everywhere - from Irvine, ...
LOS ANGELES - Reports that the problem-plagued MacLaren Children's Center in El Monte may soon close to settle a federal class...
COSTA MESA - Memorial services took place Saturday for Seth Cochran Thompson, a lawyer with Orange County's McCormick, Kidman ...
Constitutional Law
Hastings Grad Claims Out of State Tuition Illegal
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Non-California residents who pay extra to attend public colleges and universities here probably shouldn't coun...
Forum Column - By Nausheen Hassan - Gov. Gray Davis cannot usurp the liberty of deserving inmates, especially battered women w...
Forum Column - By Geoffrey L. Garfield - Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world, a glamorous place where American...
Judges and Judiciary
Celebrating Homecoming at the Farm With 'Youngstown'
By Joel Rosenblatt
PALO ALTO - Two Supreme Court justices traveled back in time at Stanford University last weekend to redecide a case that shape...
SANTA ROSA - When retired Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Gayle Guynup decided to become an assigned judge after retirement...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Paul J. Killion and Kate Cutler - With increasing frequency, California insureds are turning...
WASHINGTON - Federal grand juries in Maryland and Virginia have opened cases on the deadly sniper shootings plaguing the metro...
Entertainment & Sports
In L.A., Politics of Crime Fighting Perfectly Depicts Halloween Spirit
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In Los Angeles, the politics of law enforcement is almost always entertaining, educational and, not i...
PALO ALTO - FBI Director Robert Mueller confessed surprise at being awarded Stanford Law School's Jackson H. Ralston award for...
Judges and Judiciary
Riverside Court Gets New Commissioners
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Riverside County Superior Court has selected three new commissioners to join the bench. Lori Hunt Kennedy, 35, for...
SAN JOSE - The media and the court each have "integral roles to play that are fundamental to the protection of the public and ...