Attorneys who represented groups that protested during the Democratic National Convention in a First Amendment dispute will be...
Two past members of now-defunct Los Angeles firm Tuttle & Taylor have landed on their feet at the Los Angeles office of Jo...
Two men who have worked for Los Angeles County for 11 years without employee benefits finally said "enough" Wednesday. John Ho...
A Los Alamitos police officer bitten by a California Highway Patrol dog cannot sue for the bite. The dog bite was an inherent ...
A man whose suit brought about a landmark decision barring insurance companies from denying disability benefits based on evide...
Intellectual Property
9th Circuit Clears 'Batman' of Intellectual Property Offense
By Pamela Mac Lean
When artwork or sculpture meld into the architectural functions of a building, that eliminates copyright protection under a 19...
Decertify this! This week, the U.S. landscape looks - even more than usual - like it's been overrun by the big attack dogs of ...
Judges and Judiciary
Homeless Courts Seek Out Needy for Last Chance
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
One of the men has a master's degree in human resources management and used to play semi-professional baseball before becoming...
After a long struggle, Joe Fernandez thought his years of bad luck, heroin addiction, prison and family tragedy were almost ov...
The challenges facing local officials trying to implement Proposition 36 - the "treatment not incarceration" initiative passed...
Even though the state's Hispanic population is burgeoning, Latino attorneys are complaining that the number of Latino judges i...
David Grunwald didn't grow up dreaming of doing good. "I was a punk in high school," Grunwald recalled. Merle Haggard could do...
Eyes welling with tears, Anai Garrido Garcia sat on a narrow cot in the concrete-block dormitory at the Los Padrinos juvenile ...
The growing complexity of the conservatorship process in California has greatly increased the costs of starting a conservators...
Services will take place in Westwood Sunday for international tax lawyer J. Blake Lowe. Lowe died Nov. 16 at Century City Hosp...
The U.S. Census for 1990 reported that California has the highest number of single-parent, female-headed families in the Unite...
Public Interest
Aid Programs Help Alleviate Widespread 'Legal Poverty'
By Contributing Writer
Discussions of inequality in 20th-century America focus on "social goods," such as medical care, housing, job security, enviro...
Edwards, Sooy & Byron, whose roots date back to the late 1970s, is dissolving this week. "The primary reason [for closing]...
Litigation
Order Bars Coors from Selling Mexican Brews
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Coors Brewing Co. had hoped to capitalize on Americans' taste for Mexican beers by launching its own line of south...
A woman's unwilling testimony against her husband has led an appellate court to reverse the Fullerton man's 26-years-to-life s...
An alternate on the jury that convicted three Los Angeles Police Department officers of corruption-related charges denied Tues...
A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner has dismissed a murder charge against an alleged gang member in a case tinged with a...
Five Bay Area attorneys were named to local superior court benches on Tuesday, bringing to 11 the number of new judicial appoi...
Environmental
Farms' Exemption From Water Quality Regulations Targeted
By Dennis Pfaff
Environmentalists hope to open a new era in cleaning up California water pollution by asking state regulators to impose contro...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Presides Over Minors Caught in Immigration Maze
By Susan Mc Rae
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, eight fresh-faced teens, wearing identical sweats, trooped single-file into a downtown Los An...
For 16 years, the city of Los Angeles has been playing a game of cat and mouse with a landlord whose housing violations have r...
WASHINGTON - Putting the brakes on police roadblocks, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled, 6-3, that the Fourth Amendment is vi...
Students interested in immigration law soon will get the opportunity to work on actual cases, when the University of Southern ...
Law Practice
Judge Finds No Evidence of Lawyer Misconduct
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Monday denied a motion to dismiss the criminal case of a defendant who contended his lawyer...
JOSHUA TREE - A Los Angeles man who provided the drug GHB to a teen-ager who died at an all-night party in the desert was conv...