SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has developed a novel formula to calculate attorney fees in two civil rights cases, setting th...
Judges and Judiciary
Veteran Judge Takes Delight in Color, Emotion of Courtroom
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Speaking of his cases, fictional and real, Superior Court Judge Michael Cowell jumps back and forth from prison ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Court Finds Capacity Water Charge Was Validly Adopted
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. - In November 1996, California voters approved Proposition 218, the Rig...
Family
Despite 'Rosales,' Administration Seems Determined to Leave Some Kids Behind
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Yolanda Arias - Enedina Rosales already had raised her children. A working grandmother, she expected to be v...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - California's 108 community colleges have a mission to meet the varied educational needs...
Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - With the advent of high-tech electronic monitoring equipment and software tracking syste...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Daniel L. Rothman, who practiced law in the Los Angeles area for 50 years, will be held a...
Labor/Employment
After 11 Years, Civil Rights Lawyer's License Will Be Reinstated
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - It's pretty basic-looking: a plastic card, containing a number, the cardholder's status, the seal of the State Bar...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has signed papers formalizing a settlement that bars Kaiser Permanente from f...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Test Takers Want Voice in Bar Exam Scoring
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Aspiring California lawyers who took the state Bar Exam last month are asking a bar panel to be fair today when ...
Public Interest
Circuit Offers Cold Comfort to Both Parties in Fee Dispute
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Who works harder? A federal appeals court judge or a government lawyer? A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
SAN FRANCISCO - The public should not worry that San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera himself will play any role in city...
Judges and Judiciary
Kids in Dependency Court Exhaust But Touch Judge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - When Gov. Gray Davis appointed federal prosecutor Cynthia A. Bashant to the San Diego Superior Court in 2000, all ...
SAN RAFAEL - A black robe and a bland expression comprise a judge's official faade. What lies within? Marin County Superior Co...
Column By Garry Abrams - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's unusual public memo on why he would not recuse himself fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court held Thursday that free speech rights extend beyond demonstrators' ability to address ...
WASHINGTON - In flatly rejecting a request to recuse himself from a case involving his friend Vice President Dick Cheney, Supr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to review the issue of whether the state's tough new ethical rule...
Criminal
Five Years After His Murder, Police Look for Jurist's Killer
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Former colleagues of Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H. George Taylor say they still have a hard ti...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a petition Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the authority of...
Civil Rights
Law Banning Affirmative Action Seems To Legalize Same-Sex Partners' Unions
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Forum Column - By Jack D. Forbes - Can anyone deny that to halt a civil marriage because of one or both partner's sex is in di...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Once again, the eyes of the world are focused on a brutal and devastating terrorist attack o...
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - The 4th District Court of Appeal recently filed its opinio...
Book Review - By Daniel A. Olivas - Critics of the American legal system have long pointed a collective accusatory finger at t...
LOS ANGELES - William Cottrell, who was indicted this week for the August firebombings of sport utility vehicles and Hummers i...
Litigation
Judge Rejects Class Status for Steeltex Faulty-Tires Lawsuit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - A Riverside Superior Court judge Wednesday refused to certify as a class action a lawsuit claiming Bridgestone/Firesto...
LOS ANGELES - The Securities and Exchange Commission went to court Tuesday to force the chief outside counsel of a Pasadena ho...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Calls Downward-Departing Sentences Courageous
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday told a congressional panel that federal judges who depart down...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Drunken-Driving Case Moves to L.A. Superior Court
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - The drunken-driving case of a former Orange County presiding judge, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a t...
LOS ANGELES - Several Los Angeles lawyers quietly have launched a letter-writing campaign on behalf of federal Judge Manuel L....