The California Judicial Council's Center for Families, Children & the Courts plans to devote its annual academic journal, ...
An advisory panel to the Los Angeles Police Department's civilian oversight board is considering whether the department should...
Administrative/Regulatory
Measure's Language Spurs Fight Between Activists, Santa Monica
By Ed Kimble
The court has given Santa Monica consumer activists the last word on what voters will read about in an initiative to prevent c...
Witnesses who took the stand Tuesday in the third day of testimony in the Los Angeles police corruption trial seemed to be def...
A decade after the federal and state governments sued Montrose Corp. and three other corporations for depositing 100 tons or m...
Attorney and former Florida child welfare official Anita Bock, hired by Los Angeles County less than a year ago to revive the ...
Constitutional Law
Supreme Court Appointees Have a Tendency to Surprise
By Contributing Writer
Charles Levendosky's opinion piece has it backwards. "A Scalia-Thomas Court Would Hurl the Nation Backwards," Forum, Oct. 6. A...
What does one do when a $15,000 box of cigars gets engulfed in small, inhaled flames? ...
The city of Los Angeles has an opportunity to fundamentally change the culture of the Los Angeles Police Department from one t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge, accused of "malingering" by a judicial watchdog agency, said Monday that h...
SAN FRANCISCO - Five copyright suits against Napster Inc., scattered around the country, landed Monday in the lap of U.S. Dist...
SAN FRANCISCO - At the end of a meeting dedicated to planning, the State Bar Board of Governors decided unanimously Saturday t...
A federal judge plans to bar the city of Los Angeles from implementing a ban on "For Sale" signs in vehicles parked on city st...
A Los Angeles police officer testified Monday during the first trial to emerge from the Rampart corruption scandal that he doe...
Services have taken place for Gordon T. Stulberg, former president of Polygram Corp. and 20th Century Fox Films and a past par...
A state appellate court has pruned a $280,000 jury award to a Redondo Beach kindergarten, ruling that the owners of the school...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Will Hear Tax Suit Filed By Judges 11 Years Ago
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Nearly 11 years have passed since 16 federal judges filed suit in the old U.S. Claims Court, contending that Cong...
To give the homeless of Riverside County a helping hand, officials are asking for a finger or two. Starting next month, the co...
Government
Officials Blast LAPD Over Costly Nationwide Recruitment Drive
By Chris Ford
Despite their vote last week to bolster the Los Angeles Police Department's recruiting budget by about $615,000, two members o...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Sybase manager has sued San Francisco's Wotman Kors & Cloutier, saying its lawyers defamed him in...
Labor/Employment
In 'Guz,' High Court Shows a 'Worker Be Damned' Attitude
By Columnist
Twelve years ago, the California Supreme Court, in Foley v. Interactive Data Corp., pulled its head out of the musty old law b...
Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:
Litigators may want to avoid rogue clients whose dishonesty is going to be a big part of the case.
Transactions
Cooley Godward: OPLINK COMMUNICATIONS GOES AFTER $247 MILLION
By Staff Writers
San Jose's Oplink Communications has gone public with an initial public offering worth $247 million. Oplink makes components t...
Transactions
Steel Hector: TEHACHAPI'S ENRON SELLS WIND FARM TO FPL ENERGY
By Staff Writers
Enron Wind Corp. has sold its Lake Benton II wind farm - reportedly the largest wind farm ever built - to FPL Energy LLC. The ...
Superior Court Judge Thomas W. Stoever will receive the Pasadena Bar Association's Judge of the Year award during a dinner Wed...
A recent study indicates that states with capital punishment experience higher murder rates than states that do not. Apparentl...
Irvine's Rus Miliband & Smith has elevated one of its associates to the partnership ranks. Leo Presiado is partner No. 5 f...
With San Francisco-based Schachter Kristoff Orenstein & Berkowitz having closed its doors Sept. 15, the firm's Sacramento ...
Firm Watch
O'Melveny & Myers: VICE CHAIRS BEGIN WORK IN NEW EXECUTIVE OFFICE SETUP
By Staff Writer
This summer, Los Angeles giant O'Melveny & Myers moved from its traditional management committee leadership to a more stat...