Criminal
25-Year-Long Continuance Is Sufficient for Olson, Prosecutors Say
By Garry Abrams
Prosecutors in the Sara Jane Olson case said Wednesday the defendant shouldn't get another continuance because she's already h...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court in Los Angeles has ruled that Rodney G. King, whose 1991 beating at the hands of Los Ang...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed two Los Angeles Superior Court judges to a new division within the 2nd Di...
LOS ANGELES - Instant karma was not on the agenda for San Diego Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell at the confirmation hear...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has filed his own defense of his novel practice of...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared poised to deliver a blow to the ability of states such as California to r...
SAN BERNARDINO - A judge has ruled that security guards at the San Manuel Indian Reservation are not immune from a lawsuit al...
Constitutional Law
Wife's Refusal to Testify Against Absent Husband Sparks Debate
By Matthew Heller
LANCASTER - Prosecutors say Susan Jurcoane's marriage ended the day her husband allegedly murdered two people at a ranch near ...
Fungi and molds are among the earliest-known forms of life. They have existed for more than 1 billion years. ...
General Bank of Los Angeles always has gone to great lengths to secure its reputation as a stickler for rules. But sometimes e...
Neutral Charles Dolginer was about to start a seven-day medical malpractice mediation when the case suddenly settled. And Dolg...
Walter Oetzell took a year off in 1974 to travel around the world. At one point, somewhere between Egypt and Greece, the Briti...
Even though the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had given the opposition the purported right to use the disputed marks, the ...
Labor/Employment
Laws Protect Civilian Careers Of Those Serving in Military
By Columnist
Few civilians have a clear understanding of how the reserve system functions. The reserve components of the U.S. military numb...
The Los Angeles Superior Court recently approved a $41-million, class-action settlement involving homeowners in Santa Clarita ...
On Aug. 1, the jury returned a verdict in Tutor-Saliba-Perini J.V. v. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Author...
Americans should look with skepticism on what may be the crocodile tears of our new best friends and "allies" in the Middle Ea...
SAN FRANCISCO - In Gov. Gray Davis' latest round of judicial appointments, he has tapped a commercial litigator, an insurance ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Cartwright & Alexander law firm in San Francisco announced Tuesday that it will dissolve after five ye...
SAN FRANCISCO - Next time you're swooshing down the slopes on your skis and a snowboarder barrels into you, don't run (or hobb...
Litigation
AT&T Posed as Minority-Owned Company, Competitor's Suit Says
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - A Native American-owned telecommunications company has sued AT&T, alleging that it created a front company t...
LOS ANGELES - Some insiders affectionately call Thomas Higgins the presiding judge of delinquency court. The head deputy of th...
LOS ANGELES - Confirmation hearings for San Diego Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell, who has been appointed to sit on the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal Environmental Protection Agency isn't legally obliged to take action against polluters, even if th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A bid by San Francisco class action lawyer Sherman Kassof for a larger award of attorney fees got no sympathy ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Assumption of Risk Doctrine Rejected in Child's Boat Accident
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A young child who fell out of a water-skiing boat and nearly lost her arm to the propeller can pursue a neglig...
LOS ANGELES - The attempted-bombing trial of accused Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson should be delayed at l...
LOS ANGELES - The name Hugh Henry Brackenridge may not jog too many memories, but to hear Judge Zel Canter tell it, he was a h...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has stayed a contempt order that calls for a Beverly Hills attorney to spend five days in ...