Judges and Judiciary
PD Is Outspoken On Death Penalty And Rehabilitation
By Erik Cummins
SANTA ROSA - Like many of his colleagues representing indigent clients, Louis Haffner staunchly defends the rights of the acc...
A notorious, long-running Hollywood legal feud between two tough guy actors who probably would have felt more at ease on moto...
RIVERSIDE - Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask announced Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed against...
Juvenile
Riverside Grabs Grant San Bernardino Passes On
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino's Board of Supervisors have decided not to approve a $5 million state Board of Corrections gra...
San Francisco Superior Court Judge James J. McBride was arraigned Thursday morning by a visiting judge in Domestic Violence C...
SAN JOSE - The authors of a report outlining new rules to protect famous trademarks in the online world ducked a lot of contr...
RIVERSIDE - After nearly five years of litigation, relatives of the woman at the center of the so-called Riverside mystery fu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Since 1996, the Dow Jones industrial average has climbed by an impressive 55 percent to reach its recent 10,0...
SAN DIEGO - The case against two servicemen accused of beating to death an Ecuadorian hotel clerk came to a close Thursday wh...
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office Thursday all but dismissed a recommendation by the U.S. Commission on Civil...
Media
Justices Inclined to Recognize Right of Access to Civil Trials
By Philip Carrizosa
The California Supreme Court strongly hinted Thursday that it will grant the news media and the public a right to gain access...
Personal Injury & Torts
Cop Wounded in Bank Shootout Cannot Sue Gun Manufacturers
By Denise Levin
A judge has ruled that a Los Angeles police officer critically wounded in the North Hollywood shootout cannot sue the makers ...
A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down government regulations that gave officials virtual veto power over the wide d...
Peter Digre, the controversial director of the Department of Children and Family Services, has resigned the post he has held ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Attorney Indicted in Insurance Fraud Scheme
By Martin Bergn
A Malibu attorney has been indicted on federal charges that he participated in an insurance fraud scheme with doctors who per...
An attorney described by prosecutors as "a driving time bomb" pleaded no contest Thursday to felony assault, evading police a...
A UCLA law school graduate pleaded no contest Wednesday to doctoring his transcripts to get hired at a law firm, becoming the...
Shortly after the House Judiciary Committee passed The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999 (H.R. 833), the full House passed the bi...
Immigration
Mediation of Prop. 187 Could Be Search for Political Expediency
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - If you're wondering what will come of Gov. Gray Davis' effort to mediate the Proposition 187 court battle, just ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Hoechst Will Pay $36 Million on Charges It Fixed Sorbates Prices
By Pamela Mac Lean
The German chemical firm Hoechst AG has agreed to pay a $36 million fine and plead guilty to a 17-year conspiracy to fix the ...
An Orange County judge is being investigated for repeatedly making "undignified" comments on the bench - including singing "w...
Appellate Practice
Injunction Against Workplace Slurs Is Likely to Stand
By Philip Carrizosa
An attorney trying to attack an injunction against racially derogatory words in the workplace ran into a buzzsaw Wednesday at...
Los Angeles civil rights lawyers and police abuse plaintiffs' counsel Wednesday praised a reported recommendation by the U.S....
SAN FRANCISCO - Staring at a video about their career possibilities as they slouched in a row of office chairs, the defendants...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court looked askance Tuesday at an attempt by news organizations to gain access to the...
Lesley Wolf, a real estate partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office, died Sunday of breast cancer. She was...
For years, the San Diego County Bar Foundation's Distinguished Lawyers Memorial was displayed outside the Superior Court pres...
After waiving his right to a preliminary hearing, a former Los Angeles Superior Court conservator and trustee has been ordere...
Cincinnati insurance giant American Financial Group Inc. is about to gain a high-profile, high-tech attorney. As of June 1, V...
San Bernardino Superior Court is planning to join the slowly increasing number of California county courthouses establishing ...