By John McCloud Ernest J. Pearson, president of Lee & Associates in Stockton, has worked the Central Valley commercial re...
Most commentators agree that more cases are lost at oral argument than are won there. ...
Senior care community planned in Culver City Culver City - JBZ Architecture + Planning of Newport Beach unveiled the design f...
By Ann Banning-Wright Companies have invested billions of dollars in telco hotels, data centers and other critical facilities...
The region around San Joaquin includes multiple counties and even more business-destination cities. The 2000 Kosmont Cost of ...
A jury convicted a Whittier man Tuesday of first-degree murder in the 1999 killing of his half sister, the wife of Los Lobos b...
Judges and Judiciary
DA Boycott Facilitates Inspiring Assignment
By Contributing Writer
SAN RAFAEL - Until recently it seemed as though Commissioner Randolph E. Heubach would be relegated to the same criminal depar...
SAN DIEGO - As the nation's busiest federal court faces a workload crisis, U.S. district judges in California's Southern Distr...
Ron Overholt, who worked in San Diego Superior Court in the 1980s, has succeeded Dennis Jones as chief deputy director of the ...
A Los Angeles Police Department sergeant accused of planting a gun on a suspect testified Tuesday that he saw a gun in a suspe...
VENTURA - John J. Reiner's Hollywood experience goes beyond suing such industry giants as the Walt Disney Co. The Century City...
SACRAMENTO - A group of private engineers contends that although California law permits the state to contract with private bus...
Citing the growing number of non-English speaking immigrants in California, the state Judicial Council has added five more lan...
An Englishwoman's decades-old battle with the Immigration and Naturalization Service over her deportation because of a 24-year...
Government
Budget Battle Delays Funding For Federal Judiciary, Pay Raise
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A budget standoff between President Clinton and Congress that may force lawmakers to finish their work in a post-...
SANTA ANA - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant prosecutor of Orange County, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the county ...
Four new lenders join Internet marketplace San Ramon - IMX Exchange, an Internet-based electronic marketplace for the wholesa...
Legalized abortion and California's recently passed child-abandonment law protect a woman's right to plan her family much more...
A new regulation is intended to combat "selective disclosure" by company officials of material, nonpublic company information....
Litigation support programs can help lawyers find the smoking gun. ...
A Pennsylvania trial court contemplates a suit against Satan. ...
Judge Franklin R. Taft got the attention of spectators during a death row inmate's habeas corpus hearing when he granted a pr...
Every person has been moved by a beautiful work of art. It's a snapshot of reality that makes you think. It makes you happy, a...
AUBURN - Before a panel of spooks and specters, medical-marijuana activist Steve Kubby today will begin telling a Placer Count...
Services will take place in Beverly Hills today for Melvin Joseph Duvall Jr., a former trial lawyer with the U.S. Department o...
SAN DIEGO - She was 16 and in big trouble with both the law and her mother for shoplifting six silver rings. At her sentencing...
WASHINGTON - Continuing its focus on arbitration, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether an Indian tribe must ...
Despite undisputed testimony that her former boss called her a "black bitch" and wanted her fired, a trial judge last year thr...
A memorial service will take place Thursday for retired Los Angeles attorney John E. Caldwell. Caldwell, who specialized in ta...
Public Interest
It's the Thought That Counts in Police Use of Less-Lethal Projectiles
By Garry Abrams
Activist lawyers are gearing up to file a mega civil rights suit against the Los Angeles Police Department. The attorneys are ...