SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County judicial candidates, faced with a crowded ballot and limited funds, are relying on paid slate ma...
A badge and a gun ... No matter how much we improve the recruiting and training of people who wear them, until humans become p...
The debate over Proposition 22 is now in full swing. It seems to be in the media daily. In fact, it appears that the subject o...
An Irish "smart card" developer recently sued 3Com Inc. in a New York federal court, alleging that technology used in the Pal...
SAN DIEGO - Even before opening arguments at a Civil Service Commission hearing for a district attorney investigator fired for...
SAN BERNARDINO - Gary Redinger knows that his only chance to take a judicial seat from an incumbent in the March 7 elections i...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they will rule that federal law pre-empts state-court tort suits b...
Judges and Judiciary
Bar Association Ratings Irk Some Judicial Hopefuls
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - As what once seemed destined to be a typically subdued campaign for four superior court judicial seats moves towar...
He'll be back. That was the message Wednesday from a lawyer for alleged police misconduct victims who was rebuffed in his effo...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that federal prisoners whose sentences are reduced by appeals co...
Leonard S. Janofsky, founding partner of Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, died at his home of a heart attack ...
A judge has ordered two warring plaintiffs attorneys to call a truce and consolidate their cases and asked them to stop bicker...
Labor/Employment
Like a Good Spy Novel, Competing Private Security Firms Spark a New 'Cold War'
By Garry Abrams
Cold War-style treachery is trying to make a comeback in Los Angeles, the city of dreams built on betrayal as an art form. In ...
SACRAMENTO - Backers of a juvenile justice ballot initiative are threatening to sue radio stations across the state if they do...
Permitting recreational use may result in landowner liability for significant personal injury or property damages. ...
Los Angeles County caused its employees who invest in a 401(k) plan to lose money when it sold, then repurchased shares of sto...
The factual differences between 'Landgate' and 'Ali' may provide guidance for government lawyers.
RIVERSIDE - Martin H. Swanson and Paul E. Zellerbach have headed in the same direction in life, but they took different routes...
Jurors reporting for duty in the Los Angeles Superior Court's North Valley District only have to serve for one day or one tria...
Applied Materials buys Etec Systems for $1.8 billion. ...
In another attack on laws that restrict citizen complaints against police officers, the American Civil Liberties Union on Tues...
Ex-Court Worker Must Pay $8,300 In a case that sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread thef...
Racial Profiling Is Topic of Discussion Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks and state Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City, are...
On the eve of trial, a former accounting manager settled her lawsuit against Latham & Watkins, the firm she claimed retali...
SAN DIEGO - An appeals court has ruled that an effort to disqualify all San Diego County judges from hearing a motion to dismi...
U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff delivered her annual State of the District address during a luncheon last Wednesday sponsored...
By David Frum Must we make the same mistakes over and over again? In January, the Republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan...
Criminal
Ex-Wife Nearly Driven to Suicide, DA Testifies
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Claudia Oleesky, the ex-wife of a man charged with obstruction of justice, stalking and robbing a food bank for bl...
Eric Reifschneider is a math junkie who likes sports. ...
Lawyers for accused madam Jody Babydol Gibson lost a bid Tuesday to disqualify the Los Angeles district attorney from prosecut...