SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday revived efforts by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and San Francisco City ...
Constitutional Law
Sea Club Says It Shouldn't Pay for Ties to Boy Scouts
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday on whether the city of Berkeley was within its rights to end a 5...
Administrative/Regulatory
Judge Sanctions Attorney for Talking Trash at Deposition
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday sanctioned a plaintiff's attorney involved in the church sex-abuse litigation for talking trash...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles federal prosecutors released details Tuesday of two guilty pleas in connection with the wiretapping ...
WASHINGTON - When it was time for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the only woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to quest...
BOOST FOR COURTS - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a $125.6 billion budget proposal Tuesday that includes funding for 150 ...
LOS ANGELES - CancerVax, Micromet Agree to Join Forces Biotechnology companies CancerVax Corp. and Micromet AG have announced ...
OFFICE LOS ANGELES - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged $63 million in financing for the purchase of 5900 Wilshire Blvd., a ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - As we look back on 2005, we are reminded of the many significant changes that occurred wit...
Briefly - Protests outside the homes of Los Angeles city animal shelter officials by members of a radical animal rights group ...
Judges and Judiciary
To Find Real Alito, Ignore the Hard Sell -- And the Witch Hunt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Caren Deane Thomas - When I recently received an invitation to a reunion of my Yale Law School class, it sti...
Judges and Judiciary
Questions for Alito Range from Judicial Restraint to 'Roe'
By Contributing Writers
Forum Contributions - By Leonard A. Leo • Justice Robert Jackson of the Supreme Court once famously wrote, "We are not final b...
LOS ANGELES - Two years ago, allegations of corruption within Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn's administration started flicker...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Panel Orders End to 'Vicious' Dog's 18-Month Lockup
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Sasha the dog has won a reprieve. A state appellate court on Monday ordered the Alameda County Sheriff's Departm...
Administrative/Regulatory
Big Lobbyist Hits Rock Bottom: 'Take My Money, Please'
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Things have gotten so bad for Jack Abramoff that he tried to give me money. Abramoff is the Washington, D.C., lo...
Judges and Judiciary
Reform-Minded Judge Seeks to Ease Navigation Through Emotional Family Court
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - After a career spent mostly in criminal defense, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Patrick Tondreau has thri...
MORENO VALLEY - ERP Operating LP purchased Broadstone Moreno Valley Ranch, a 176-unit apartment community at 15100 Moreno Beac...
LOS ANGELES - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund has tapped a Los Angeles federal prosecutor to serve as it...
Focus Column - By Bruce Givner - Family limited partnerships fared well in the federal courts in 2005. Following is a brief su...
Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Question: What does the Armenian genocide have in common with evolution? Answer: In certain ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Language Held Hostile, the Right to Counsel and the High Court
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Devallis Rutledge - President Bush has made his determination perfectly clear: "We cannot let terrorists and...
LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added civil litigator Dana J. Dunwoody to its business trial practi...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego law firm Sullivan Wertz McDade & Wallace has changed its name to Wertz McDade Wallace Moot & Br...
LOS ANGELES - Concerned about nonviolent offenders receiving disproportionate sentences under the state's three-strikes law, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Celebrity divorce attorney Stacy D. Phillips has seen a lot of arguments in her 22 years of counseling high-pr...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider a right-to-counsel dispute involving a Southern California t...
SANTA BARBARA - A Santa Barbara jury awarded a longtime Auto Club employee $1.2 million Friday in a disability discrimination ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys marvel at the harmony Los AngelesCounty Superior Court Commissioner Gary Bounds was able to orchestrat...
LOS ANGELES - Hydee R. Feldstein, a partner in Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker's corporate group, will depart the firm to...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Declares Mistrial After $1 Million Verdict for Nurses
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - Citing jury misconduct, a Superior Court judge Friday threw out a $1 million verdict for two former nursing sup...