SAN FRANCISCO - The Earth First jury misunderstood the evidence and was unfairly swayed by the plaintiffs' lawyers, defense co...
LOS ANGELES - Farzad Yadollahi and Fariborz Biyazaei, two defendants in a breach of contract suit, had a run of bad luck. They...
Solo and Small Firms
Defense of Blake's Bodyguard Thrusts Attorney Into Spotlight
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - In her 18-year career as a criminal defense attorney, Century City attorney Arna H. Zlotnik has not become a hou...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court in Sacramento on Thursday refused an oil industry request to raise the amount of MTBE ...
REDWOOD CITY - A hearing on a precedent-setting proposal to forcibly medicate a murder defendant even though he has been decla...
LOS ANGELES - Government vouchers that assist parents in sending their children to private religious schools do not violate th...
SAN DIEGO - A stamp dealer from the San Diego area faces charges stemming from alleged bid-rigging in what the U.S. Justice De...
SACRAMENTO - In a decision that further weakens the California Department of Managed Health Care, a state appeal court ruled T...
LOS ANGELES -Los Angeles Superior Court has mailed ballots for one open court commissioner vacancy to 412 Superior Court judge...
Law Practice
Tennis Champ, Lawyer Handled Sale of Pacific Electric Rail Lines
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for retired attorney Edgar D. Yeomans will take place Sunday at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. ...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting about this week's mostly negative grand jury report on the district ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Justices Set Rules For Suits Among Attorneys
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer sued by a client for malpractice may go after the co-counsel who provided the bad advice to recover h...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray, who is facing ethics charges over mailers sent durin...
Entertainment & Sports
Many Unprotectable Similarities May Add Up to Infringement
By Columnist
Focus Column - By David Halberstadter - On June 12, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its most recent decision on t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company's unsecured creditors won approval Thursday to file their own plan to reorgan...
WASHINGTON - Striking a resounding blow for judicial freedom of speech, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that, once states ...
Law Practice
Entertainment Chair, Devoted Judge Mastered Art of Persuasion
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today in Cathedral City for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roy M. Carstairs, ...
Dicta Column - By James Grafton Randall - Discovery is not as difficult a task or as complex a matter as some try to make it,...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Court Rightly Stayed True to Facts in 'Tahoe-Sierra' Case
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Daniel L. Siegel - According to Michael M. Berger, plaintiffs' attorney in Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Coun...
Constitutional Law
Inmate Cuffed to Hitching Post Can Sue, Justices Decide
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Condemning treatment "antithetical to human dignity," the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that an Alabama prisone...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court approved random drug tests for many public high school students Thursday, ruling that schools' ...
SAN DIEGO - Digital photos of girls being sexually assaulted and of people having sex with animals were recovered from the hom...
SAN FRANCISCO - Keenan G. Casady, a judicial administrator in the state and federal courts for more than 25 years, will be the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Furiously denouncing "political blackmail" by state Sen. John Burton, directors of Hastings College of the Law...
Judges and Judiciary
Diligence Marks Jurist Who Loved Litigating
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Judge Paul E. Zellerbach admits that one of the reasons he wanted to become a judge is because he's a "control fre...
SAN FRANCISCO - "Pearls Before Swine" - a crisply-drawn line-art cartoon strip featuring a rat, a pig, a zebra and a goat - pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt's days on the bench appeared to be numbered Wednesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a pair of powerful religious rights decisions, a federal appeals court held Wednesday that the words "under...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors violated the state's open-meetings law on three occasions, a Los Ang...
LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys have resigned the practice of law and another has been suspended, following investigations by the ...