The Long Beach City Council for a second time has delayed a vote on whether to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. Council mem...
The emerging field of neuroscience claims that a criminal's brain is different from the norm. By Joseph N. Sorrentino ...
California Supreme Court
High court steps into medical marijuana debate by agreeing to review cases
By Laura Ernden
The state Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take another look at California's medical marijuana laws, this time to sort out w...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court mulls rule allowing parent's residency to apply to child
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court weighed Wednesday a pro-immigrant rule unique to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that makes a par...
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Wednesday appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias to the state ...
A state appellate court has revived a class action against retailer Brookstone for illegally collecting customers' ZIP codes a...
Law Practice
Client conflicts keep eight Rutter Hobbs lawyers from joining Greenberg Glusker
By Casey Sullivan
A group of eight Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff Inc. lawyers slated to join Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP ...
Management of the state prisons' medical and mental health facilities will continue to be in the hands of a federally appointe...
Holland & Knight LLP hired a securities litigation specialist in San Francisco as it continues to expand in California, t...
A federal court threw out a case Wednesday where a group of American Indians claimed rights to a vast ranch north of Los Angel...
Oracle Corp.'s difficulty in putting together a damages expert's report that would satisfy a San Francisco federal judge illus...
Irell & Manella LLP has selected an intellectual property litigator to serve as the firm's new managing partner. ...
A plaintiffs' lawyer who played a leading role in the $660 million sexual abuse settlement with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court upholds copyright law for foreign works
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a copyright law Wednesday that gives legal protection to millions of works by foreign authors th...
Core values 'head, heart, hands and health' served Kelly Doblado well as a child and now in court.
RoganLehrman LLP, a general practice firm, and Trope & DeCarolis, LLP, a family law firm, both leased space on the 13th fl...