LOS ANGELES - Putting limits on a tool for taking corporate wrongdoers to court, a state appellate panel has ruled that a Los ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday struck down a California prison rule that prevents inmates from receiving Internet-g...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a measure into law Wednesday that strengthens penalties against those who practice law wit...
Litigation
Legal Leviathan's Press Release Harpoons Voyager in Midpassage
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - So the Good Ship Lollipop is really the HMS Bounty and the officers are in a hanging, keelhauling, gi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Accused murderer Jane Benson requested and got powerful drug cocktails from Lake County jailers during her 19...
SAN FRANCISCO - References to plaintiff Mary Miles' alleged marijuana farming remain barred from the defamation trial of the S...
LOS ANGELES - Assistant Presiding Judge Robert A. Dukes on Wednesday became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superi...
LOS ANGELES - The last thing Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Philip K. Mautino wanted to see was razor wire strung in front o...
Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - The prevailing wisdom among litigators is that only deposition takers can win and only the ...
Forum Column - By Omer S.J. Williams - Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the only large law firm that had its primary office in the...
LOS ANGELES - Marking the first anniversary of Sept. 11, volunteer judges and attorneys will visit 15 Los Angeles high schools...
SAN JOSE - The co-founder and chief executive of a San Jose software company was charged Tuesday with wire fraud for fabricati...
Immigration
Advocates Denounce Arrests of Immigrants Working at Airports
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Immigrant rights advocates are protesting the arrests of more than 100 workers at Southern California airports, ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon's family investment firm asked a Los Angeles County Superior Co...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has lost another corporate partner in its Los Angeles office....
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday refused to halt the execution of convicted killer Stanley Williams, co-founder o...
SANTA ANA - In the largest Federal Trade Commission action of its kind, more than 18,000 home-mortgage borrowers will receive ...
Judges and Judiciary
Escutia's Last-Minute Effort Was Too Much, Critics Say
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Every year at the end of the legislative session, there's a mad scramble by lobbyists to get their pet projects a...
LOS ANGELES - When Mohammad Sayed and Omar Zazia decided to take a Saturday night off from their university studies to see a l...
SAN DIEGO - A judge suspended jury deliberations Tuesday in the trial of David A. Westerfield because a juror was ill, setting...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank asked a federal court Tuesday to strike down two separate ordinances by D...
LOS ANGELES - An Italian pasta machine manufacturer cannot be held liable for an accident involving one of its kitchen applian...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Central Valley lawyer who had a financial stake in a series of bond contracts while serving as a city attorn...
Personal Injury & Torts
California Courts Differ on Liability for Negligent Handling of Emergency Calls
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Focus Column - By Daniel P. Barer - "Nine-one-one." Long before the Sept. 11 attacks lent those three digits an ironic double ...
Terror and the Law - Forum Column - By Jan Ting - Since Sept. 11, the United States has been engaged in a life and death strug...
WASHINGTON - While the hours that followed the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., resonated with a simple unde...
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner Everybody does redirect examination, but does that mean it is smart? I believe that all co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Why the California Supreme Court devotes its precious time to reviewing some cases and not others is often a m...
SAN DIEGO - After a day of deliberating without fresh requests for testimony or exhibits, jurors went home Monday without reac...
Constitutional Law
Church Club At School Has Equal Rights, Circuit Rules
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Student-led religious clubs must be given equal access to the same school resources as non-sectarian student c...