Criminal
There's 8 Million Stories in the Naked City - Then There's Puffy
By Ross Johnson
Greetings from New York. This is a tight column, so The Eye has to discard a lot of the 8 million stories in the naked city. T...
Proposition 28 on the March ballot offers voters a clear choice: Protecting the healthy development of our children or increas...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Proposition 213 bars uninsured motorists from...
Attorney Felix Valdez died Saturday of cancer in Arrowhead Medical Center in Colton. He was 47. Valdez began his professional...
Lawyers of California, a crisis is upon us. Largely ignored by major media types, it has somehow even escaped our collective a...
A 62-year-old retiree claims in a lawsuit he was "recruited" to sue a bank by lawyers and others with the assurance he would n...
Labeling it another example of Los Angeles police mishandling a mentally unstable person, the parents of Felix Valenzuela, Jr....
Criminal
DA to Re-Investigate Pre-Rampart Charges on Reputed Gang Member
By Michael Harris
Of the many incidents being reviewed for possible criminal charges against rogue Rampart cops, one involves a purported beatin...
Businesses are trying to collect insurance money for Y2K remediation costs. ...
Four of 12 officers identified early in the investigation of the Rampart scandal should not have been hired by the Los Angeles...
What do you happen to be carrying in your pockets right now? A pager? A business-lunch receipt? Spare change perhaps? ...
Environmental
Former Sewage Plant Manager Faces Prison for Polluting Bay
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A former manager of an East Bay sewage treatment plant has pleaded guilty to federal pollution charges and fa...
Here is a selected summary of actions taken by the California Supreme Court during its weekly conference on Wednesday. ...
Nine more people are expected to have their cases thrown out today due to the Rampart police corruption scandal, bringing to 3...
Inducement to infringe a patent is not covered by advertising-injury policies. ...
A vegan computer technician claims he was denied a job at Kaiser Permanente for refusing to take a mumps vaccination because i...
Saying he believes Los Angeles district attorney challenger Steve Cooley can better oversee the Rampart investigation than inc...
A state appeal panel has ruled that, in false arrest and imprisonment suits based on state law claims, a plaintiff is entitled...
Criminal
Hayden Hypes Former Gang-Bangers Benevolence in Bid for U.S. Asylum
By Garry Abrams
State Sen. Tom Hayden is claiming that the ever-widening LAPD Rampart Division corruption scandal this week saved a former gan...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marcellus Aaron Elder, convicted last year of dealing cocaine in San Francisco housing projects in 1995, was ...
Pasadena's Christie, Parker & Hale has recruited several lawyers from the Los Angeles office of Darby & Darby, a New Y...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy must either show up in federal court at the end of the month to represent h...
Intellectual Property
Sony, Following Court's Suggestion, Files PlayStation Patent
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In last week's groundbreaking decision expanding the "fair use" doctrine to permit some use of copyrighted mat...
Litigation
Bosses Barred Chen's Promotion, Lawyer Says
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney Victoria Chen volunteered to take assignments within the office that no one...
Complying with seismic-safety regulations may put California hospitals in critical condition. ...
SANTA ANA - Despite allegations that Steven and Denise Oleesky bilked a food bank of more than $3 million with the help of Gle...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Dwyer, a nationally known environmental law scholar, was appointed Tuesday to become dean of the Boalt Ha...
Graham Hollis , a naturalized American citizen who grew up in West London near Heathrow Airport, was recently installed as thi...
By Charles Levendosky Government should not do a number of things. Pushing religion is one of them; telling people when and ho...
The inevitable disclosure doctrine is a potentially devastating weapon in the arsenal of former employers. ...