The Rampart corruption scandal took center stage Tuesday evening at the first face-to-face debate between Los Angeles District...
SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecutor who promised to dismiss a case pending results of a lie detector test cannot go back on his word ...
Government
Angry Boyle Heights Residents Berate Police Commissioners
By Anne La Jeunesse
Tempers flared Tuesday evening at the seventh and last scheduled meeting between the public and the Los Angeles Board of Polic...
Stuart Hanlon, who has been working on the Geronimo Pratt case since he was a law student more than 20 years ago, described th...
Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Wednesday he expects his office to file only a "small handful" of motions to o...
WASHINGTON - Almost all of the Supreme Court justices expressed serious concern Wednesday about requiring the Boy Scouts to ac...
The Rampart-related, class-action civil rights lawsuit filed last week by a gutsy, self-promoting and controversial civil righ...
Public Interest
Local Legal Services Program Will Sue Its Federal Grantor
By Jeffrey Anderson
The Legal Services Program for Pasadena-Pomona-San Gabriel Valley has announced it will file a lawsuit against the Legal Servi...
Although his federal public defender insisted in 1997 that Jorge Sisco-Aguilar was being framed by two lying Rampart CRASH ant...
Judges and Judiciary
Its '60s Deja Vu All Over Again in L.A. County Grand Jur
By Garry Abrams
A fight that two criminal defense attorneys are waging over the racial and ethnic makeup of the Los Angeles County grand jury ...
An attempt to amend a request by the Los Angeles City Council that a panel investigating Rampart police corruption increase it...
The Los Angeles city attorney's office is claiming that a vast majority of the 28 lawsuits filed against the city alleging civ...
Litigation
Judge Deems Irvine Council's Voter Drive Unlawful
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit alleging that the city of Irvine acted unlawfully by funding a ...
A former Daily Journal editor and attorney, Kenyon Roberts, has died. Roberts died last Thursday at the Chandler Convalescent ...
Practitioner: Alternate Dispute Resolution By Alexander S. Polsky All attorneys have been there - the painful moment when dis...
A recently released study titled "The Color of Justice" by a national coalition of legal groups called Building Blocks for You...
Law Practice
Attorney Listed as 'Reptile' Sues Phone Company
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
FULLERTON - Linda K. Ross, a Fullerton family law attorney, never expected to achieve national prominence in the way she did l...
San Diego Watch Superior Court Judge Ernest Borunda will retire from the bench in June to become dean of the National Judicia...
Forum: Attorney Action By Elaine Michetti No political parties. No elections. No independent judiciary or legislature. No bar...
Forum: By Steven L. Harmon On March 17, the Riverside Criminal Courts Bar Association Board of Directors voted unanimously to...
SAN DIEGO - After one emotional trial that ended with a hung jury, the first police canine handler in the nation known to have...
Defense attorneys for the first three Los Angeles police officers charged in the city's worst police corruption scandal blaste...
Judges and Judiciary
Napas Guadagni Is Honored By Juvenile Court Colleagues
By Cheryl Romo
Napa County Superior Court Judge Raymond Guadagni, founder of book and music clubs for kids on probation, has been selected as...
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Tuesday found that several staff members of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute committed medi...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to strike down a Nebraska statute, similar to those in 29 other state...
Appellate Practice
Committee Unlikely to Allow Citation of All Appellate Opinions
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Heavily opposed by the legal establishment, a proposal to allow all state appellate court opinions to be cited as...
The parents of a 24-year-old East Indian woman want her to become a U.S. citizen like themselves and their older daughter. But...
Legendary Los Angeles lawyer Frank Rothman, an upholsterer's son who became a Hollywood mogul, a dealmaker and courtroom strat...
SACRAMENTO - The state's most powerful lawmaker angrily warned California's district attorneys Tuesday that they will pay dear...
Behind the closed doors of the grand jury investigating the Rampart corruption scandal, an impasse has developed between some ...