Judges and Judiciary
Report Calls for Reform of States Family Courts
By Contributing Writer
SACRAMENTO - Angry veterans of child-custody battles packed a Capitol news conference Monday and called for closer scrutiny of...
SAN JOSE - With a key legal question cleared up, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office is moving forward with a fi...
In Estate of Brenner, 76 Cal.App.4th 1298 (1999), the 2nd District Court of Appeal found that a photocopy of a holographic ins...
International
Clinton Has China's Key, But Will Congress Let Him Use It?
By Contributing Writer
By Bob Deans Tapping the riches of the China trade has been a dream of Western merchants for centuries. The allure has grown s...
SANTA ANA - Steven and Denise Oleesky, accused along with a Glendora lawyer and several private investigators of obstruction o...
Attorney Ed Masry and legal researcher Erin Brockovich, made famous by the hit movie "Erin Brockovich," will speak at a meetin...
In an effort to provide a financial incentive to help improve Los Angeles' air quality, the City Council has given conceptual ...
In what will bring to 75 the number of felony cases that will have been thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corrupti...
Private legislation proposed Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would grant citizenship to a severely disabled E...
RIVERSIDE - If Riverside County officials had wanted only to take some of Dr. Robin Oxman's land, they probably would no longe...
Dicta: By Erik Gunderson In the legal profession, cynicism pays. The practice of law is fraught with perils. These cynical ass...
Civil Rights
L.A., 'Homeless Capital of Western World,' To Host Alternate Convention
By Garry Abrams
Longtime homeless activist Ted Hayes laughed Monday when I asked him how many out-of-towners might ride the rails and the Grey...
Criminal
Not-Guilty Plea Follows Initial O.C. Extradition
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FULLERTON - A murder defendant who is Orange County's first successful extradition from Mexico in a dozen years pleaded not gu...
Loyola Law School will inaugurate a program in August leading to a master of laws in taxation. ...
The Practitioner: Administrative Law By Stuart Miller Before a court can evaluate a hearing decision by an administrative agen...
Forum: By Michael McNulty Now that e-commerce has become a marketing juggernaut, various taxing authorities, and especially th...
Personal Injury & Torts
High Court: Asbestos Victim Entitled to File Two Separate Suits
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a plaintiff who claims to have contracted two different disease...
SANTA ANA - In a contrast with the battle over a perceived lack of diversity in Los Angeles County's grand jury pool, Orange C...
Eli Broad, chairman and chief executive officer of SunAmerica Inc., will deliver the commencement address at Southwestern Univ...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Gerald L. Barry, 56, has retired from the bench after serving seven years, the past two of wh...
Intellectual Property
Patent Case Centers on CEO's Allegedly Stolen Notebooks
By Pamela A. Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has not seen so many pinstripes in one place since the New York Yankees were in town. An extraor...
Government
Ex-DA Handles Police Liability For Irvine Firm
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
IRVINE - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant district attorney of Orange County, has joined the firm of Manning, Marder,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary L. Reback, a high-profile partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati who led one of the first legal ...
By Steven A. Silver In her editorial "Mothers Targeting Gun Violence," (Forum, May 8), Sen. Dianne Feinstein gushed about the ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Family Targets Manufacturers Of Disinfectant
By Anne La Jeunesse
The family of a 55-year-old United Airlines flight attendant who died of "metastatic lung disease" a year ago has filed a wron...
Just as the federal government is pressuring Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks to hand over the keys to his...
SAN FRANCISCO - Celebrity divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson has convinced a State Bar Court judge that he is fit to practice la...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday approved an award of more than $1.7 million in attorney's fees for the city of To...
A federal judge Monday dismissed weapons charges against a man who contended he had been framed by one of the police officers ...
Convicted pimp Joy "Babydol" Gibson, who allegedly plied her sex trade via the Internet, was sentenced Monday to three years i...