LOS ANGELES - The dizzying speed with which prosecutors obtained an indictment against two Inglewood police officers accused i...
Criminal
Jurist's Inscrutable Arithmetic to Increase Sentences Doesn't Pass Muster
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - While somewhere there may live an alchemist who can transform 71 grams of meth into 151 grams of meth...
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - To paraphrase Art Linkletter, laymen say the darnedest things. In my capacity as the chair of...
LOS ANGELES - Three public pension funds that filed a proposed class action against WorldCom Inc. have little chance of recove...
LOS ANGELES - Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital will remain open for now, despite a court ruling denying a temporary restraining ...
LOS ANGELES-The attorney for a fax company accused of failing to remove business and consumer names from its unsolicited fax l...
SAN FRANCISCO - In Stanislaus County's legal community, newcomer Superior Court Judge Wray Ladine set such a new standard for ...
SANTA ANA - Family law attorney Stephen N. Livingston doesn't want anyone to pay for his services. A few years ago, however, L...
SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court gave no clear sign Wednesday whether it will restore an award of $88.5 million in legal fees...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether class actions are the appropriate vehicle for ...
Forum Column - By James Acret - In preparing bid packages, architects are encouraged by the American Institute of Architects t...
LOS ANGELES - Death row inmate Adam Miranda hopes a recent trial referee's finding that prosecutors failed to disclose evidenc...
LOS ANGELES - Two days before he was arrested by district attorney's investigators on an old misdemeanor warrant, the amateur ...
Litigation
Businesses Can Use Many Different Tools to Fight Lawsuits by Consumers
By Columnist
Focus Column - By David R. Sugden - Hundreds of businesses in California are defending lawsuits that they did not (and could n...
SAN FRANCISCO - It wouldn't do either justice justice to call James Marchiano the ghost of Gary Strankman. But it is fair to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has added millions of dollars to a jury's verdict, saying jurors short-changed a snowboarder who was p...
Dicta Column - By Demetrice D. and Benjamin C. On Friday, May 17, 2002, eight minors from Camp David Gonzales went to visit th...
LOS ANGELES - More than 60 mothers openly nursed their babies in the food court of the Santa Monica Place mall yesterday to ed...
LOS ANGELES - A millionaire businessman acquitted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury last year of raping nine women has file...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nobody would mistake Susan Breall for a benchwarmer. In conversation, she's engaged and animated, leaning forw...
SAN DIEGO - The president of the American Civil Liberties Union predicted Tuesday that there is not a chance of survival for a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fake guns can scare anyone who sees them, including bystanders, a unanimous Sacramento appellate panel conclud...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Addresses Tension Between Rights and Security
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN DIEGO - Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher criticized the Bush administration Tuesday for its failure to release...
SANTA ANA - A San Leandro municipal law firm was selected Tuesday to conduct the delicate task of crafting a response to a gra...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley snubbed the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday, failing to show up to answer que...
SAN FRANCISCO - Do we really want judicial candidates to sling campaign promises like political hucksters? Or do we want voter...
Forum Column - By Mel Opotowsky - It was an open-and-shut case: Someone from the U.S. attorney's office opens an envelope, stu...
WASHINGTON - When the Pledge of Allegiance ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came down last month, some Republic...
Litigation
Trial Judge Slashes Punitives in Harassment Suit Against Ralphs
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for six women who won a record $30 million sexual harassment verdict against Ralphs Grocery Co. only to se...
LOS ANGELES - A vicious, 10-year battle between a former civil rights lawyer and his one-time client finally may be over, now...