Litigation
Court Interpreters Lead a Precarious, Limbo-Like Life
By Contributing Writer
By Mark McCaffrey. One might wonder whether Arnold Schoenberg, the father of atonal, discordant modern music, would have appro...
Theodor C. Albert of Albert, Weiland & Golden, a Chapter 7 trustee, and attorney Stanley Minier of the Law Office of Stanl...
By Kathrin Mautino. For many years, the laws regulating asylum were subject to political and cultural influences. During the C...
Los Angeles County senior citizens soon may have a weapon to defend their pocketbooks from exploitation. ...
William Rosar will not get his day in court. A state appellate court has affirmed the dismissal of his disability discriminati...
A preliminary hearing for Los Angeles Police Officer Nino Floyd Durden, who is accused of framing and trying to murder an unar...
Product Liability
Bill Increases Penalties for Failing to Recall Defective Cars, Parts
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Reacting to the Firestone-Ford tire fiasco, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she and Judic...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor on Tuesday scheduled a Sept. 25 preliminary hearing for two men charged wit...
Tim Pestotnik discovered the information almost by accident. One day last month, he stopped by Charlie Bird's office at Luce, ...
Litigation
Irvine Valley College President Sues District
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The president of Irvine Valley College has filed a lawsuit against the South Orange County Community College Distr...
American Civil Liberties Union attorneys charged Tuesday that thousands of public school students in California don't have tex...
An alleged carjacker accused of holding up President Clinton's motorcade last month while leading police on a high-speed freew...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has closed the book on charges that a Los Angeles judge had improperly us...
The Los Angeles Police Department will be required to document searches, as well as vehicle and pedestrian stops, make major u...
A Woodland Hills attorney received money from a Washington, D.C., pro-police group to represent a now-retired officer in the n...
SAN FRANCISCO - A decision in a case challenging Los Angeles' ban on gun sales at the Pomona fairgrounds was delayed Tuesday w...
Criminal
Officials Urge State Legislators To Reauthorize Act for Women
By Anne La Jeunesse
State Sen. Hilda Solis, D-El Monte, and Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday joined leaders of the fight ...
Firms should beware of beauty contests during boom times. By Anne Bothwell. ...
By Stephen Yagman. I am told that there was a Rico Petrocelli who played third base for the Boston Red Sox. RICO, also known a...
By Mark Steinberg. Dubyah blew it. And he blew it in the view and hearing of the entire Labor Day crowd. In a single, self-ind...
By Jeffrey A. Goldfarb. On March 29, the U.S. Supreme Court, in City of Erie v. Paps A.M., reaffirmed its prior decision in Ba...
SACRAMENTO - Urging changes in the state's "overly complex and unduly burdensome" campaign reporting rules, a special commissi...
A telltale sign that a child is destined for law is billing both mom and dad for the weekly allowance. By The Rodent. ...
Litigation
Fans and Foes Of Measure F Battle in Court
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Should Orange County voters decide if the county gets a new airport, jail or landfill? Or should the Board of Supervisors have...
Former District Attorney Ira Reiner, who conceded the election to District Attorney Gil Garcetti in 1992, has given his endors...
The authors of a report that criticizes the Los Angeles Police Department for fostering lawlessness among its officers, protec...
A U.S. Customs agent and his brother have pleaded guilty to federal charges for smuggling 15,000 counterfeit Microsoft softwar...
A North Hills man pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor federal hate crime charge for spray painting swastikas and other whit...
SANTA ANA - A former computer systems manager at the University of California, Irvine, police department has filed suit, alleg...
Technology & Science
Needed: A V-Chip for Candidates Denouncing Violence in Entertainment
By Garry Abrams
Remember the V-chip? I thought not. For those who are drawing a big, fat blank, the V-chip is a microchip that is required by ...