SAN FRANCISCO - The Bar Association of San Francisco joined a chorus of business interests Wednesday in protesting a superviso...
SAN FRANCISCO - A death row inmate convicted of three 1980s murders is now so mentally ill that he's been declared unfit to he...
Government
Armed But Disabled: Family Questions Hesperia Police Shooting
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - On the night of July 2, Ignacio Mendez was suicidal, according to members of the Hesperia man's famil...
SAN BERNARDINO - Robin Woods, a 25-year-old Rialto man whose confession to a 1992 murder threw his case into a legal quandary ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediator Handled Abused Children's Cases
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Dependency court mediator and law professor Elizabeth Marmorston Horowitz died of cancer. She was 72. "She was a...
SACRAMENTO - A woman who was injured in a tae kwon do class cannot sue her instructor for damages under the primary assumption...
Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - Divorce often leaves a former spouse, usually the woman, with a reduced standard of living....
Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - "Communication," as defined by the Encarta Dictionary, is the exchange of information between...
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A very big part of lawyering is responding to questions to which you don't know the answer. In ...
Forum Coulmn - By Christine Spagnoli - Mold fear is gripping homeowners, spreading as quickly as the toxic spores themselves. ...
Labor/Employment
High Court Creates Bright-Line Rule on Continuing Violations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Larry A. Walraven - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morga...
Personal Injury & Torts
Trend Against Liability for Third-Party Attacks Continues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Increasingly over the past decade, lawsuits seeking to hold property owners liable for...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles area tax protest group cannot get its membership lists and other literature returned while it is...
SAN FRANCISCO - A high school student cannot be prosecuted for making a criminal threat simply because he painted a picture of...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's retired judges and their beneficiaries will get their August pension checks after, all despite th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez jealously guards his own privacy, which may explain, in part, why the otherwise c...
LOS ANGELES - Two law enforcement officers swore to a grand jury that they did not see an Inglewood policeman beat a developme...
LOS ANGELES -Felony crimes that also can be charged as misdemeanors, known as "wobblers," are held to a felony's statute of li...
LOS ANGELES -Almost six years have passed since a minivan traveling up the Grapevine slammed into a 29,000-pound steel coil th...
LOS ANGELES - At 82, Judge James E. Satt has a lot of stories to tell, and he tempers them with historical perspective. Satt r...
SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist testifying in the kidnapping and murder trial of David A. Westerfield said Tuesday that th...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has sentenced a former personal injury lawyer, who practiced in Los Angeles and San Francisco, t...
WASHINGTON - Despite a 2 percent drop in the number of inmates held in its state and federal prisons, California has the worst...
SANTA ANA - Denise Gragg hasn't gotten any hate mail yet. But she wonders how long it will be before her highly publicized rol...
SAN JOSE - A judge refused Tuesday to dismiss a woman's false imprisonment suit against Santa Clara County authorities for all...
Forum Column - By Phillip Feldman - Lawyers' conflicts of interest generally involve either "serving two masters" ( Flatt v...
Intellectual Property
Counsel Can Use Statistical Methods to Assess Patent Risk
By Columnist
Focus Column - By James E. Hopenfeld - It has become conventional wisdom - and rightly so - that a strong patent portfolio is ...
LOS ANGELES - Six weeks after Supervisor Gloria Molina chastised county counsel for spending too much on outside defense attor...
SAN JOSE - For 10 years, Sharon Chatman was head coach of the women's basketball team at San Jose State University. Today, aft...
Constitutional Law
Judge Ponders If He Can Rule on Slate Mailer Provision
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A federal judge said Monday he is willing to grant a preliminary injunction to prevent the state from requiring c...