WASHINGTON - Odds are you've probably never heard of the Justice Department's Community Relations Service until now. And that'...
At least four Los Angeles Superior Court judges plan to take a permanent spring break from the bench in the next couple of mon...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Finds No Liability -- And $4.3M Damages
By Anne La Jeunesse
In a decision that lawyers say is rare but not unprecedented, a jury has awarded millions of dollars to plaintiffs without fir...
Native Americans
Condemned Are Told to Keep Their Cool - Even on Their Way to Execution
By Garry Abrams
On his way to San Quentin's death house early Wednesday morning, serial killer Darrell Rich wanted to make a detour to the swe...
Taking swipes at Mayor Richard Riordan's plan to fund judgments arising from corrupt policing with tobacco-settlement money, C...
Following an extraordinary public standoff between Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks and District Attorney Gil Garcetti o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Delving into the rights of motorists, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to review two cases in ...
RIVERSIDE - After two dissenting jurors were removed from the panel on consecutive days, a jury Wednesday sentenced a Riversid...
Disposition of joint-tenancy property can be tricky when a party dies during a dissolution action. ...
SAN JOSE - The much-feared Y2K computer bug may seem a distant memory, but attorneys still are arguing over litigation about i...
Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman, which specializes in representing purchasers of complex technology, goods and services, ...
Constitutional Law
Court Enjoys Arguments on Official Public Bag-Squeezing
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By Dahlia Lithwick Here's a tip for everyone involved in transporting illegal drugs over interstate lines: U.S. Supreme Court ...
Judges and Judiciary
APBnews.com May Publish on Internet Judges Financials
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON-The Judicial Conference of the United States voted Tuesday to rescind a policy set down earlier this year by one of...
NAPA - Two Napa teens were fixing a flat tire on a hot May night in 1998 when a hail of bullets from passing cars left 18-year...
The Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday rejected a Police Department proposal to spend $9 million a year on a program that w...
Ernie Hunt , a "small-town fellow from the Texas Panhandle" who became a fixture in the Northern San Diego County legal commun...
The 16-year-old San Bernardino girl who was arraigned Friday on charges of stabbing her newborn daughter to death in the bathr...
A socialite who found herself in a mile-high bind when the captain of an American Airlines flight tied her to her seat with he...
Lawyers at Girardi & Keese lied to an insurance company about the circumstances surrounding the accidental shooting of a s...
The Los Angeles city attorney's office has identified hundreds of misdemeanor cases that may be tainted by involvement of offi...
In a tentative ruling that could have widespread impact, a federal judge has stated that the daughter of a man allegedly shot ...
Prosecutors in the Los Angeles district attorney's sprawling central trials division have a bad feeling about the impact of th...
Criminal
Appeal Court Reversal Leads To Supervisors Resentencing
By Anna Marie Stolley
Help - I've been invited to participate in a beauty contest, though I'd rather enter a swimsuit competition than pitch my firm...
SAN FRANCISCO - A subcontractor accused in a civil suit of exploiting the city's affirmative-action contracting program may ne...
SANTA ANA - Attorneys representing groups favoring an international airport at the former El Toro Marine Base filed a lawsuit ...
SAN JOSE -- The Santa Clara County district attorney's office is dropping its fight to prevent defendants from reviewing full ...