Constitutional Law
9th Delivers Mixed Verdict On Holocaust Victim Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California's Holocaust victim insurance law survived a major constitutional attack before the 9th U. S. Circui...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oregon prisons are stepping on inmates' First Amendment rights by turning away subscription newsletters delive...
LOS ANGELES - City Council members lambasted Mayor Richard J. Riordan on Wednesday for standing in the way of needed reforms t...
Constitutional Law
The Physics of Legal Charity, Counting Interest Rates and Adopted Kids
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The creation of money can be almost as mysterious - and controversial - as the creation of the universe. That's ...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Victor Bianchini received the Big Footy Award for his service and assistance to the Foothills...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Culver City attorney Clair Martin Christensen. Christensen died Jan. 30 at...
Overcoming a life-threatening illness taught John E. Andrews that winning isn't everything, but the Los Angeles attorney hasn'...
SAN FRANCISCO - After getting voted out of San Francisco city government, former Richmond District supervisor Michael Yaki is ...
When the leagues faced legal challenges to their grip on money and power basketball, baseball and soccer didn't play games in ...
The professional sports industry, which involves unique and nonfungible labor, receive high marks for its ADR practices. ...
The entertainment industry is bracing itself for an impending labor dispute and inevitable lockout that is expected to bring H...
LOS ANGELES - Duane Lyons, a senior lawyer at the U.S. attorney's office, is leaving next week for private practice. After tak...
SAN JOSE - In a big win for Santa Clara County in a battle with technology giant International Business Machines Corp., a judg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Following a courtroom repudiation of the death penalty by San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, co...
The untimely filing of a new-trial motion deprives a party of the extension-to-appeal period in the Federal Rules of Appellate...
Constitutional Law
Bush's Faith-Based Program Lacks Key Element: Safeguards
By Columnist
President George W. Bush declared the theme of his second week in office to be "faith-based organizations," and his administra...
Sharon Lowsen, a sole practitioner in Fullerton, won a motion for nonsuit in a case of fraud brought against her client. Ci...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Recusal Will Affect $95 Million Case Post-Trial
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Vincent P. DiFiglia has recused himself from post-trial matters in a case in which a land dev...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday for Wayne O. Veatch, founding partner of Los Angeles' Veatch, Carlson,...
Criminal
Husband Killed His Family for Cash, DA Argues
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Kim Raymond Kopatz was on the brink of financial ruin when he strangled his wife and 3-year-old daughter with an e...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a $4 million-a-year plan to improve the city's response to crim...
LOS ANGELES - Bird-watchers who sued the city of Long Beach and U.S. Department of Navy to ensure the environment is protected...
LOS ANGELES - Following the firing Monday of former chairman Gerald L. Chaleff, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners ...
SACRAMENTO - Tackling the controversial issue of jury nullification for the first time, the California Supreme Court appeared ...
LOS ANGELES - President Clinton's pardon of a man who sold a bogus hair-loss remedy doesn't preclude prosecutors from filing c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A high-security prison that rejects U.S. mail solely because it contains information downloaded from the Inter...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal drug regulators violate the free speech rights of pharmacists by prohibiting them from advertising the...
SAN BERNARDINO - Most Little League baseball teams no doubt would relish any coverage in the hallowed pages of Sports Illustra...
Clients are more likely to retain the services of a certified specialist or a lawyer with a niche practice. In addition to the...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan said Monday that his office has filed manslaughter charges against a big ri...