Judges and Judiciary
Ground Broken for Federal Courthouse
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Ground Broken For Federal Court RIVERSIDE - Already home to more than half a dozen courts, Riverside will soon add a U.S. Dist...
Government
Airport Conversion Foes Sue O.C. Seeking Return of Legal Fees
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - A coalition that opposes a planned airport at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station has sued Orange County, allegi...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a win for Oakland's trailblazing legal effort to curtail prostitution and drug sales by seizing customers'...
WASHINGTON - With time running out on the congressional session and all eyes focused on impeachment, Congress has passed seve...
In what apparently is the first high-tech consumer fraud case of its kind in the nation, prosecutors announced Thursday they ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Man Sues DMV to Avoid the 'Mark of the Beast'
By Denise Levin
A sheriff's reserve lieutenant has filed suit against the Department of Motor Vehicles on religious grounds, claiming the age...
Judges and Judiciary
After 41 Months of Suspense, Fletcher Gets 9th Circuit Post
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A 41-month wait ended Thursday for Boalt Hall professor William Fletcher, when the Senate voted 57-41 to confirm...
Criminal
Charges of Dirty Tricks Fly in Investigation of Landfill Project
By Mathew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - The allegations seem like something out of an industrial espionage thriller, complete with stolen computer d...
Appellate Practice
Rehearing Set After Defendant Serves 16 Years
By Anna Marie Stolley
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a defense lawyer's preparation for a murder trial - a cursory revie...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for thousands of union workers at the Albertson's grocery chain, a federal appeals court ruled T...
RIVERSIDE - Housing facilities for juvenile detainees in Riverside County - already severely overburdened - were dealt a furt...
A judge on Friday refused to throw out the bulk of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former partner of the entertainment la...
SAN JOSE - The departures of high-level officials at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reflect continuing instability at t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Local Bar Leaders Table Plans for a Voluntary Bar
By Don De Benedictis
MONTEREY - The group of local bar leaders who have struggled for months to design a statewide voluntary bar association to fi...
Judges and Judiciary
Ito Removed From Suspended Lawyer's Murder Trial
By Michael Harris
Prosecutors have filed an affidavit of prejudice against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lance Ito, prompting his unconteste...
Late last month, eBay, a San Jose-based Internet auction company, went public. Its shares were priced at $18, but at one poin...
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, and Orange County Superior Court's presiding and assistant presiding judges have been selected....
WESTMINSTER - Deputy District Attorney Sonia Balleste was concerned. She arrived at work Tuesday morning and was going throug...
WASHINGTON - A deal worked out last week between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership may lead to a rash of j...
Intellectual Property
Justices to Consider Rights to Sue Employers Despite Arbitration Pacts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Labor and business will be going to the mat before the Supreme Court this week on whether workers covered by col...
SAN JOSE - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of Palo Alto, which specializes in offering legal assistance to Silicon Valle...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Poll: Lawyers Want the Right to Elect Board
By Don J. De Benedictis
California lawyers overwhelmingly believe they should keep the right to elect most of the members of the State Bar Board of G...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Riverside President Sees Local Bar Responding to New Duties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - As newly installed president of the Riverside County Bar Association, Diane Catran Roth has clearly defined goals...
^^The Paper Chase / Michael Ueda^^ Scheduled to open later this month, Concord University School of Law, based in the Westwood...
Last year, Los Angeles resident Adrian G. Ready was shocked to find that he was dead. And in the eyes of the Social Security ...
Los Angeles County court officials said Thursday that despite District Attorney Gil Garcetti's call for the implementation of...
Litigation
Plaintiff, First Attacked by Shark, Meets Match in Defense Lawyer
By Anna Marie Stolley
Neither guppy nor goldfish, it was, in fact, a thrashing lemon shark that left Steven Rosenbloom hospitalized for three days....
In a world where people often look for others to blame for their troubles, the story of a father of two who is suing his form...
Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn and Attorney General Dan Lungren took a fight public Thursday over Hahn's lawsuit aga...
SACRAMENTO - Siding with the business community, Gov. Pete Wilson has vetoed a sweeping civil rights bill that would have expa...