In the coastal city of Santa Cruz, David Leahy has made a career out of promoting and cultivating organic produce. A one-time ...
Two years ago, aspiring novelist Ken Andina moved from his noisy San Francisco apartment to the quiet, seaside town of Carmel....
While sitting in front of the television at home, real estate broker James Liptak frequently juggles many tasks. With his lapt...
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles Superior Court clerk pleaded no contest Thursday to accepting a bribe to search computerize...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Teach Court System to the People, Judges Urge
By Don De Benedictis
SAN DIEGO - The judges of the ABA announced a big push Thursday to encourage their colleagues nationwide to explain the court ...
SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst will go to the state Supreme Court to fight an appellate decision striking down the...
LOS ANGELES - Former personal-injury attorney James H. Davis posted $10,000 bail late Wednesday to win his release from custod...
SAN FRANCISCO - Canoga Park attorney Randolph M. Hammock believes that if the judges of the 4th District Court of Appeal never...
WASHINGTON - Danny Lee Kyllo was arrested in his Florence, Ore., home on Jan. 27, 1992, by officers executing a search warrant...
SANTA CLARA - The nationwide effort to find and free wrongfully convicted inmates came to Santa Clara University Law School on...
Judges and Judiciary
Counties Can't Bust Prop. 13 To Pay Court Judgments
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-three years after voters approved Proposition 13, judges still wrestle with its property tax constraint...
LOS ANGELES - "Big Mama" is the story of an elderly African-American grandmother's struggle to be allowed to raise her develop...
Criminal
Former Lawyer Gets 16 Years in $3 Million Conservatorship Scam
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Former Riverside attorney Michael Molloy was sentenced Thursday to 16 years and four months in prison for his role...
The Internal Revenue Service recently issued final regulations and new proposed regulations regarding the tax treatment of loa...
Several states'-rights issues have made headlines over the past few years as a result of judicial, legislative and executive a...
The 'Powerine' decision leaves intact substantial insurance benefits and obligations, even when insured faces only administrat...
"Want me to show you how it's done?" she teased. My girlfriend, a nonlawyer, enjoys turning the tables on me. She recently def...
Technology & Science
Court Quashes Injunction in Amazon 1-Click Patent Fight
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Online retailer Amazon.com appears to have suffered a legal setback in its effort to enforce its 1-Click Web p...
There are major recent financial and legal developments surrounding Lloyd's of London and its reinsurance vehicle, Equitas. Hi...
SAN DIEGO - Authorities have busted a massive counterfeit sports memorabilia ring that victimized thousands of small-time trad...
The big case just paid off. I made all that money! Buy a yacht, a Ferrari, an island in Tahiti? Not! This is the perfect time ...
LOS ANGELES - A mentally disabled Los Angeles man who was wrongfully imprisoned for two years won reinstatement Wednesday of h...
LOS ANGELES - The endorsement list of one of the four candidates in the April 10 election for Los Angeles city attorney contai...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Terry Hatter Jr. will step down sometime in September as chief of the U.S. District Court for the Central ...
LOS ANGELES - A California Democratic congresswoman has mounted an effort to get U.S. Attorney Alejandro N. Mayorkas nominated...
VENTURA - A Ventura skinhead gang member has been convicted of raping, stabbing and bludgeoning to death a college student who...
SAN JOSE - With a few legal victories in hand, and no defeats yet, attorneys for the property insurance industry are confident...
SAN JOSE - More than a year after its debut as the biggest nonevent of the new millennium, Y2K has acquired a new life - in c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel, uncertain about the retroactivity of California's 1998 law stripping product liabil...
LOS ANGELES - When the American Bar Association gathers in San Diego for its midyear meeting today, it will, as it often does,...