SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge Wednesday signed the final judgment that commits the state of California, its ci...
Judges and Judiciary
San Bernardino Looks at Building Outlying Courts
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Building a new San Bernardino County courthouse and converting the old building into office space are among ...
A Pasadena attorney testified Wednesday that he had sexual relations with a client and former law school student at various t...
Government
Clinton Lawyers Fail to Persuade Panel As Impeachment Articles Are Prepared
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - President Clinton did not lie under oath in the Monica Lewinsky matter, White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff to...
The maker of Rezulin, a drug said to correct the cause of diabetes, has been sued in Los Angeles Superior Court for unfair co...
The Los Angeles City Council approved spending more than $1 million Wednesday to settle lawsuits filed by four teen-agers who...
The incoming Los Angeles Superior Court supervising judge has previewed how he will administer the criminal courts for the ne...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed deep skepticism about the constitutionality of a unique Chicago ordinan...
As the child of Israeli intellectuals working in Ethiopia, Daniel Grunfeld lived a fairly privileged life. Still, his parents,...
Elder Law
Justices Asked Whether MICRA Limits Apply to Nursing Home Care
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court suggested Tuesday that it will allow abused elders to recover damages for pain a...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - At 42, Christine Lagarde is one of the women in the legal profession who epitomize sophistication, profes...
The Los Angeles police inspector general would have the authority to conduct investigations of all aspects of the department ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Consider the fact that San Francisco's estimated economic output each month is $2.5 billion, or $60 million a...
Creating an independent inspector general to review county claims, settlements and judgments is one of the policy changes Los...
WASHINGTON - President Clinton's conduct in the Monica Lewinsky matter was "sinful but not impeachable," his special counsel ...
SAN DIEGO - The teen-ager sitting in Margaret Hillenbrand's chambers appeared uncomfortable. Arrested on a petty theft charge,...
SAN DIEGO - Ugly allegations - including bribed witnesses and misconduct on the part of a U.S. attorney - are emerging as Ban...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the Fourth Amendment is violated by a unique Iowa law that allow...
Attorneys representing Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro began presenting their defense in a preg...
Bankruptcy Attorneys Meet in Desert Nearly 450 bankruptcy attorneys and professionals met at the recent American Bankruptcy In...
After hearing several hours of testimony, the Public Safety Committee voted Monday to ask the Los Angeles City Council to con...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mattzilla, Messenger of Doom, is living proof that time is money. This bike messenger, whose real name is Mat...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Will Weigh Legality Of Local Tax on Federal Judges
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether federal judges must pay an occupational license tax imposed b...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers Rally to Protect the Independence of the Judiciary
By Daniel Shaw
PHILADELPHIA - An appearance by a Supreme Court justice is a rare event, so when two justices participated last weekend in a ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Effort to Prolong Child's Payments Rejected by Court
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Bringing some relief to a severely injured boy, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the child's $3...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Don't Look for State Bar Refund Any Time Soon
By Don De Benedictis
CORONADO - A year ago, Marc D. Adelman, then the president of the State Bar of California, wrote to all the state's lawyers a...
Personal Injury & Torts
Hospitals, Doctors Sued Over Mom's Care
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Katherine Pipoly became ill and went into a coma last year at Inland Valley Medical Center shortly after giving b...
A lawyer who specialized in "asset protection" and two San Pedro bank officials have been convicted on federal criminal charg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing statements District Attorney Terence Hallinan made to the news media and the ensuing controversy, San ...
^^Capitol Notebook/Peter Blumberg ^^ SACRAMENTO - Not every newly elected official makes his first post-election public appear...