LOS ANGELES - Only time will tell how deep a seismic shift the California Supreme Court will experience from the death of Just...
Judges and Judiciary
Monterey Jurors' Stay Will Be a Bit More Enlightening
By Staff Writer
SAN JOSE - The dominant feature of main jury assembly room in Monterey County Superior Court is, in the words of Presiding Jud...
SAN DIEGO - Courts have lagged far behind corporations in moving toward the paperless world of complete computerization, but S...
Forum Column by Pablo Agrio - Propelled by the kidnap and murder of Polly Klaas back in 1993, political opportunists seized th...
Forum Column by Philip J. Hess - California once looked with favor on private-attorney-general fee awards. Within a five-day p...
LOS ANGELES - Former Superior Court Judge Lloyd S. Davis, who retired from the bench after stabbing his wife in what he descri...
LOS ANGELES - A rash of rubber checks has caused the federal court's Central District to enforce a long-standing local rule ag...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Victoria G. Chaney is not exactly your run-of-the-mill judge, and she likes it that way. Take for example ...
Focus Column by Keith Paul Bishop - As a result of the downturn in the stock market, as well as the dot-com economy, many comp...
Appellate Practice
Circuit Dissenters Fail to Get Rehearing on Miranda
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A deep philosophical split among judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals went on full display last wee...
SAN FRANCISCO - Suppose you represent Caltrans and the Ku Klux Klan demands an Adopt-A-Highway sign? Or maybe your client, the...
LOS ANGELES - Like many other stories about 2001, the tale of juvenile justice in Los Angeles last year was one of tragedy and...
LOS ANGELES - At year's end, Michael Nash, the charismatic supervising judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court's dependency di...
SANTA ANA - A self-described "international attorney" faces arraignment in Orange County Superior Court Jan. 16 on five felony...
Forum Column - Pursuing Justice - By Peter A. Schey - In 1992, the Guatemalan military announced that Efrain Bamaca Velsquez, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a big win for civil rights plaintiffs, a federal appellate court has ruled that counties are liable for dam...
SANTA ANA - A special Orange County grand jury panel is investigating District Attorney Tony Rackauckas for possible criminal ...
Judges and Judiciary
Quick-Witted Judge Keeps Mood Lighter With Humor
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Ventura County Superior Court Judge Steven Hintz thinks that a new career might be out there waiting for him. Af...
Construction Law Practitioner Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - It is important to understand the difference between an action...
When Gloria Handelman's husband, Douglas Coppin, died in 1991, his company, Hydro Mill, a Los Angeles manufacturer of airplane...
Defective compliance with Section 364 provides an effective basis for challenging the timeliness of a lawsuit. While the Legis...
In a highly publicized case in the late 1980s, the head of a cryonics freezing firm was challenging the will of late televisio...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that a divorced father cannot escape his child support obligations just...
SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's largest federal appellate court, long seen as the cutting edge of legal trends, once again in 200...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve L. Cooley can be sued for malicious prosecution by a defense lawyer who claims he was fa...
Entertainment Law Practitioner Column by David Halberstadter - In his 1928 novel "Point Counter Point," Aldous Huxley observed...
LOS ANGELES - On Oct. 26, President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law, giving sweeping new powers to both domestic law-...
Judges and Judiciary
More Appointments: Rushing Is Named to 6th DCA
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis filled a vacant seat on the 6th District Court of Appeal on Thursday by elevating Santa Clara ...
LOS ANGELES - A management consultant hired by the county Board of Supervisors recommends stripping the county counsel of its ...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Bruce Harwin is a hero in a black robe. Harwin saved a dozen lives when he disarmed a crazed gunma...