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...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Willed-Body Plaintiffs Lose Element of UCLA Suit
By Denise Levin
The University of California, Los Angeles cannot be sued for fraud in a class action brought by family members of those who w...
Local 660 of the Service Employees International Union Thursday weighed in on the raging debate over the Los Angeles County d...
A number of teachers' organizations filed suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, challenging a provision of Pro...
Granting the beleaguered State Bar virtually everything it asked for and $2 more, the California Supreme Court on Thursday or...
Using what she characterized as a little bit of legal magic, a prosecutor has, in a manner of speaking, traveled back in time...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court Curtails Police Liability For a Suicide
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Over a spirited dissent, a state appeal court on Thursday overturned a nearly $4 million jury verdict against...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a civil case that put on trial California's prison policy of allowing lethal force to break up inmate figh...
By Anne La Jeunesse Daily Journal Reporter A Los Angeles couple whose adopted boy is a year old has filed a legal malpractice...
SAN FRANCISCO - Overruling two precedents, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Monday that the federal Airline Deregula...
SAN JOSE - Picking up on a growing national trend, a Carmel man who received a mailing announcing he had won $1.6 million in ...
Terry N. Christensen said from the witness stand Monday that he did not penalize a former law partner by withholding bonuses ...
SANTA ANA --- After 13 years of legal delay, the trial of accused serial killer Charles Ng is speeding along at a clip that s...
Late this month will mark the end of an era of sorts for Los Angeles Superior Court. That's when criminal courts coordinator J...
The new head of the Los Angles City Ethics Commission intends to run it much the same way he runs the Los Angeles County Bar A...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Census Bureau should be able to use statistical sampling as a "quality check" on the traditional head co...
SACRAMENTO - Throwing out the bulk of a lawsuit by Gov. Pete Wilson, a trial judge ruled Monday that state outreach and recru...