Even before Amazon announced that it was looking into using drones to deliver packages, the state Legislature was debating the...
The Supreme Court is often thought of as the most influential court. Yet for many, a court much further down the food-chain ho...
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State Bar & Bar Associations
Beverly Hills Bar Association joins hotel boycott over Brunei penal code
By Don Debenedictisn
Beverly Hills Bar Association leaders will boycott the Beverly Hills Hotel over nation's harsh anti-gay laws. The association'...
Litigation
Experts: Sterling's potential attorney picks indicate possibility for big clash with NBA
By Chase Scheinbaum
The Clippers owner's decision to approach two high-profile litigators signals that he is likely to dig in his heels for a viol...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit loosens asylum standards
By John Roemer
A Guatemala man who persuaded his younger brother to defect from the feared and violent Mara Salvatrucha gang led a federal ap...
Lawmakers are poised to back the judicial branch's pursuit of hundreds of millions of additional funding. But Gov. Jerry Brown...
Over the last several decades the right to a jury trial in civil cases has been silently and slowly eroded, coming closer and ...
Litigation
Former police advocacy firm to discuss settling litigation alleging fraud
By Katie Lucia
Lawyers from the nation's largest police legal defense fund and the now-defunct police advocacy law firm Lackie Dammeier McGil...
California Supreme Court
State high court poised to vacate death sentence for juror misconduct
By Emily Green
Ten years ago, misconduct by jurors who consulted with their pastors was not enough to vacate a death sentence, the state Supr...
U.S. District Judge George H. King dismissed with prejudice the federal portion of the case brought by retailer Mayfair House ...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles wins property dispute
By Alexandra Schwappach
An Orange County Superior Court judge decided that the diocese should retain certain parish property even though the parish me...
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