LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky J. Delgadillo and Michael N. Feuer, his opponent in the 2001 election, have agreed to pay fi...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Caseload Reflects Economy's Effect on Families
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Anthony S. Jones began presiding over domestic-violence restraining orde...
Appellate Practice
Phone Providers Must Make Their 'Slamming' Clearer
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court reinstated a fraud lawsuit Thursday against AT&T Corp., saying that when the company ...
LOS ANGELES - Movie producer Bo Zenga has sued imprisoned sleuth Anthony Pellicano and the police officer suspected of feeding...
LOS ANGELES - Last October, Los Angeles County jail inmate Ki Chul Hong was stabbed to death and stuffed into a laundry bin in...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plum growers still have a shot at ending mandatory state-run marketing campaigns, the California Supreme Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter E. Scheer is an attorney and former newspaper publisher who has fought for open government - and once su...
Appellate Practice
New Rule Gives Lawyers More Flexibility in Choosing Citations
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - In the impassioned debate that surrounded the U....
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Mitchell C. Tilner - The state Supreme Court's recent decision in MacKinnon v. Truck Ins....
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration Law Shortchanges Consumers, Small Businesses
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William G. Mitchell - When well-intentioned legislators enact legislation without examining the full extent ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A scene remarkable for its comity, given its participants and its subject matter, was played out late last mon...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Tuesday he plans to sue Enron Corp. for allegedly manipulating the California ...
Were this an episode of "The People's Court," a lawsuit involving electrocuted Utah cows might be called "The Case of the Grou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent attorney Martin Majestic has left Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner's Palo Alto o...
LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys asked the state Supreme Court Wednesday to reverse a $150,000 judgment awarded because they allege...
LOS ANGELES - A retired Catholic priest accused of repeatedly fondling an incarcerated teenager in Central Juvenile Hall turne...
SAN FRANCISCO - William "Bill" Murphy, a gruff former San Francisco police officer who became a witty and successful criminal ...
Litigation
Verdict Reveals Partial Victory For Flesh Club
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Capping a long-running legal fight between a nude cabaret and San Bernardino, a Superior Court jury Wednesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jesse Markham, the head of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's antitrust group and one of the Bay Area's most...
Law Practice
Down and Out in Los Angeles: The Latest Thrill Ride for Attorneys
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - It is a strange and troubling time in Los Angeles Lawyerland, the legal theme park wher...
SAN FRANCISCO - Explanations for the vanishing trial abound. Judges, lawyers and professors report that state and federal cour...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to seize a share of punitive damages awards may net as little as $60 million fo...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Phillip R. Maltin and Jerry Balk - The personalities of certain prospective jurors make for esp...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - In caring for 30,000 children, Los Angeles is home to one of the largest foster-care ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $2.25 million jury award to Beverly Hills attorney and businessman Leonar...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors didn't have all the facts when they hit attorney Milton Grimes with a $1.25 million legal malpractice jud...
Constitutional Law
Need for 'Miranda' Warnings Isn't Age-Dependent, Court Says
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police officers don't necessarily have to take into account a ...
LOS ANGELES - Litigants who submit evidence for mediation may not be able to keep the information secret later unless they pre...
LOS ANGELES - In a published opinion, the 2nd District Court of Appeals has ruled that the protections afforded under the Stra...
SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest chicken producer will have to defend calling its food "all natural," as a result of a stat...