SAN JOSE - Citing a recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, a federal judge said Wednesday he would probably revers...
Litigation
Native American Inmate Sues Over Hair Policy
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The American Civil Liberties Union and a Los Angeles law firm filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a Native Amer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two dissident California utility regulators, claiming key elements of the blueprint to reorganize bankrupt Pac...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has struck down a lawsuit brought by a Korean-American seeking reparations for slaving in ...
Notebook - By Robert Selna - Lawyers for the Berkeley NAACP and for the parents of several schoolchildren are seeking to inter...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge in Fullerton Sniper Case Made Bold Insanity Ruling
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - Robert Kneeland, an Orange County judge best known for finding the 1970s-era Fullerton sniper not guilty by reason...
Entertainment & Sports
Trademark This! 'You're Fired' Bites Back at Television Star Trump
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Goofy with hubris, tycoon Donald J. Trump wants to trademark the words "You're fired!" This doom-lade...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has given a disgruntled client a second chance to prove misconduct by a prominent San ...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles on Wednesday announced the arrest of 15 Southern California residents ...
LOS ANGELES - You really can't fight City Hall, as David A. Levy discovered Tuesday. That's when the state Supreme Court refus...
Government
Reports in Media of Condoleezza Rice's Political Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - When former Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke publicly swore before a nat...
Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By William L. Buus - You've got a case where a buyer of real property is suing the seller for...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Federal Abortion Ban Is a Broad Attack on Women's Health
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Louise Melling and Lorraine Kenny - On behalf of the National Abortion Federation and several individual phy...
SAN DIEGO - Appellate court justices Tuesday reversed their 2002 ruling and affirmed that employers can be sued under the stat...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked an order that would have sent three-strikes defendant Pamela ...
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers seemed close to persuading the Assembly Judiciary Committee to vote to ban mandatory arbitration cl...
WASHINGTON - Hearing the case of a black defendant convicted of murder by an all-white jury, the Supreme Court justices indica...
MODESTO - The elected district attorney leading the prosecution of Scott Peterson spent time on the witness stand this month, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Loretta M. Norris, known among attorneys for her no-nonsense style d...
SACRAMENTO - Two measures that could dramatically alter the way judges decide the fate of juvenile offenders passed the Senate...
LOS ANGELES - The Glendale motorcycle cop had his lights flashing. That was proved. But the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled...
LOS ANGELES - Allan J. Favish said he took up the fight to make photographs taken at Vincent Foster's death scene public becau...
Appellate Practice
Attorneys in Microsoft Case Ask for Record $270 Million
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - In seeking a record $270 million Tuesday for prosecuting a giant class action, a team of antitrust lawyers poi...
SACRAMENTO - As a seasoned criminal court jurist with retirement on the horizon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James ...
ROSEVILLE - Since his appointment to the bench in 1984, Placer County Superior Court Judge James Garbolino has earned a reputa...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ruled that the district attorney cannot present testimony from a purported eyewit...
WASHINGTON - In a case with potential implications for the United States' war on terrorism, the Supreme Court on Tuesday heard...
WASHINGTON - Ruling Tuesday in a case questioning whether Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. was murdered, the S...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By John D. McConaghy - Nondisclosure agreements are considered the norm in the introduc...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - What's wrong with this picture? A shopping center developer buys a tract of land in San ...