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Government
City Attorney Can't Skirt Council In Any Settlement Over $100,000
By Anne La Jeunesse
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to prohibit the city attorney's office from settling any lawsuit exceedi...
In the wake of a state appellate ruling that corporate counsel are entitled to collect "big-firm" attorney fees under Civil C...
VENTURA - A Ventura man charged with the attempted murder of his former girlfriend is suing the victim, claiming he suffered ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's pioneering domestic partners' ordinance survived constitutional attack Thursday in a federal ...
Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Ralph J. Geffen died Tuesday at Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Hospital after a two-month battle wit...
DENVER - The first of what is expected to be many lawsuits related to last month's tragic shooting at Columbine High School w...
RIVERSIDE - Former Riverside County prosecutor Patrick Dutton was denied a promotion and then terminated from his job because...
A nonlawyer has been charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with assuming the identity of a practicing attorney and collec...
Personal Injury & Torts
Nonlitigants Who Spoil Evidence Cant Be Sued
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Finishing off the tort of spoliation of evidence, a narrowly divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Richards Watson Sued In Land Deal Gone Sour
By Denise Levin
An investment group claims in a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that attorneys they hired in 1996 to sue a Rancho Cucamong...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices have seemed more relaxed and playful during oral arguments this term. Perhaps that's ...
Judges and Judiciary
Slaphappy Juror Properly Excused, Court Decides
By Anna Marie Stolley
Juror No. 3 was, admittedly, a little "stressed out" when she threatened during deliberations to slap her fellow jurors "upsi...
Entertainment & Sports
Court Takes One Day to Decide Sinatra Suit
By Anna Marie Stolley
Ruling just one day after oral arguments in a dispute between Frank Sinatra Jr. and his one-time kidnapper, a state appeal pa...
A couple who claim their daughter was killed and they were seriously injured when the tire blew on the minivan they were ridi...
Ruling that a Beverly Hills lawyer charged with fraud poses a flight risk, a federal judge has ordered him to remain detained...
SACRAMENTO - It's a crime in California to see someone's pet get shot by a hunter and not report it to authorities. And a lic...
In the first-ever appellate examination of California's Son of Sam law, the statute prohibiting felons from selling their sto...
SACRAMENTO - People harmed by corporate, professional and individual negligence could sue defendants' insurers if they denied...
Culminating a five-month, nationwide search, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti announced Wednesday he has hir...
SAN JOSE - In a sweeping victory for affirmative action opponents, a state appellate court panel ruled Wednesday that city co...
Cutting-edge technology at a new forensic clinic at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center's Rape Treatment Center will greatly aid...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that will test how far government can go to accommodate religion, the California Supreme Court agre...
SACRAMENTO - Increased benefits for workers, new opportunities for arbitration and larger penalties for uninsured employers a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor, who resigned in anger two years ago over the settlement of San Francisco's biggest envir...
Apparently despondent over the end of a love affair with her supervisor, 25-year-old Los Angeles police officer Nadine Arrang...
Seeking to maximize the educational potential of the Internet, the U.S. Copyright Office on Tuesday recommended that Congress...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurors Taken for a Free Ride To All San Diego Courthouses
By Martin Kruming
Since early May, jurors have had a free ride to all courthouses in San Diego thanks to an innovative new program involving Su...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Finds Ex-Black Panther Liable in Memorabilia Flap
By Patricia Jocobus
A bitter civil court dispute between Oakland City Council candidate David Hilliard and another former Black Panther over righ...
SACRAMENTO - One of Steve White's early assignments as a young Sacramento County deputy district attorney in the 1970s was to...