Real Estate/Development
'Hackett' Preserves the Promise of Just Compensation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan K. Friedman - Code of Civil Procedure Section 1263.120 provides that the date of valua...
SAN DIEGO - Deputy District Attorney Jeff B. Dusek has his trial face on as he walks with unhurried efficiency down the corrid...
Forum Column - By Julie L. Vogt - Contrary to the contentions of critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's student drug-testing deci...
LOS ANGELES -The Church of Christ in Hollywood may not be able to silence a dissenting voice, but it can keep that voice from ...
LOS ANGELES - The law firm of Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez will sponsor a blood drive for an off-duty Los Angel...
LOS ANGELES - A defendant on the losing end of a special motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP statute is entitled to...
LOS ANGELES - The state's judicial watchdog agency Tuesday opened a formal inquiry into allegations that a former Los Angeles ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Says Kiss With Deputy Was Consensual
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In a written response Tuesday to accusations by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge Arthur Block admitte...
Government
Board Votes to Let Itself Expel Elected Officials
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The Board of Supervisors gave itself permission in a final vote Tuesday to discipline or oust locally elected...
Constitutional Law
Thomas' Votes Offer Glimmer Of Hope to Rights Advocates
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Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - One thing was lost in the headline news over the U.S. Supreme Court's two landmark d...
WASHINGTON - In the blame game following the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history, some of those investigated in government...
Law Practice
Public Defenders Plan to Unionize for Better Pay
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Deputy public defenders in Riverside County have decided to unionize in an effort to gain pay and benefits parity ...
SACRAMENTO - A Los Angeles judge's ruling has highlighted a serious flaw in a landmark statute that was supposed to make it mu...
SAN DIEGO - Neighbors of David A. Westerfield on Tuesday told how they talked casually with the 50-year-old self-employed engi...
Large Firms
Lewis Brisbois Stages Raid on Sedgwick Detert, Captures 11
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - In a raid that began Tuesday, Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith is expected to take as many as ...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit's Reversal Rate by High Court Plunges to Normal
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Things are looking up for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - at least, judging by its performance at the U.S...
Appellate Practice
Justices Settle Into Usually Predictable Voting Patterns
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court, familiarity breeds repetition. After eight terms together, the current nine justices have s...
SAN DIEGO - Two animal DNA experts testified Monday in a closed hearing that interrupted the trial of David A. Westerfield, wh...
Government
Staged-for-TV-News Event Reveals Naked Truth of Cabarets, Politics
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Never trust a strip club to pay its bills. That's the eternal lesson Ana Bernardi learned earlier thi...
LOS ANGELES - London-based Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells opened four California offices Monday after a weekend raid of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the nearly four years that Gray Davis has been governor of California, he has compiled a record of highly q...
SANTA ANA - A former parishioner accused the Diocese of Orange of concealing knowledge of a religious instructor's sexual acts...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appeal court has revived a bitter fee fight between Angela Alioto and Waukeen Q. McCoy, reinst...
LOS ANGELES - The largest nongovernment health care provider for HIV-infected patients in the United States sued the U.S. arm ...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Thomas R. Simpson has finished his last year on the Los Angeles Superior Court bench at the courthouse whe...
LOS ANGELES - While it may be liable on other claims, a newspaper that assigned one of its reporters to cover a Humane Society...
Government
Boards Wants Power to Oust Elected Officials
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The Board of Supervisors wants to give itself unprecedented authority to oust other elected officials for a r...
SAN FRANCISCO - A decade ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court barred clergymen from offering school graduation prayers on grounds ...
Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - "I don't think so. As soon as you start to give up civil liberties in the name of se...
LOS ANGELES - The person who might be the least worked up over last week's federal court ruling to strike the words "under God...