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...
LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, head of the Jewish Defense League, may be on the wrong side of the law lately, as he sits in federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's re...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - In just one hour and 42 minutes, manifest U.S. symbols of economic might known all over...
SAN FRANCISCO - Vawter "Buck" Parker wasn't scared when he got the ominously worded letter last fall from a member of Congress...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prison guards forced an Egyptian immigrant, Hady Hassan Omar, to undergo humiliating body searches and...
LOS ANGELES - Services for Irwin N. Bloom of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office will take place today in Inglew...