A big smile spread across the face of Harland W. Braun, defense lawyer for one of the officers in the Rampart police corruptio...
The first trial resulting from the worst scandal in Los Angeles Police Department history opened Wednesday. Attorneys represen...
SAN FRANCISCO - Significantly expanding job protections for handicapped workers, an 11-judge federal appellate panel ruled Wed...
WASHINGTON - With precedent appearing to support it, a majority of the Supreme Court justices on Tuesday were surprisingly hos...
SAN JOSE - Score another victory for an out-of-state company in the legal tussle over whether they can enforce contract clause...
City Council members said Wednesday they wished they had noticed sooner that $7.9 million in federal grants that could have be...
Judges and Judiciary
Ex-Judge Trammell Pleads Guilty to Abusing Authority
By Susan Mc Rae
Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to mail fraud and bre...
Entertainment & Sports
National Giggle Marathon Draws Media Feeding Frenzy to Texas Court
By Garry Abrams
Dear Mr. Abrams, aka the Judgmental Journalist, Because you are the Ann Landers of legal columnists, I am asking for your advi...
If an attorney wants a summary judgment to stand up on appeal, he must get the court to rule on his evidentiary objections. ...
It is refreshing to find that there is a high degree of consensus among Americans about the importance of families to the heal...
Civil Rights
Parks' Police Shouldn't Be Lauded for Ignoring Rights
By Contributing Writer
Since the end of the Democratic Party Convention on Aug. 17, the Los Angeles Police Department has been showered with praise. ...
Mark Pulliam of Latham & Watkins had been trying for about two years to get California Supreme Court Associate Justice Jan...
Continuing a harsh attack on Los Angels police officials, a civil rights lawyer clashed with members of the Police Commission ...
A 36-year-old deaf woman from Glendale has won a $42,000 settlement against a local physician for refusing to provide an inter...
SAN DIEGO - Asserting that his office had "professionally fulfilled its obligations to the public and defendants," District At...
The city of Los Angeles paid out more than $4.1 million in police misconduct verdicts and settlements in the first six months ...
A jury has hit the Los Angeles Unified School District with a $4.25 million verdict in the drowning of a 15-year-old special e...
A Los Angeles jury awarded $5.75 million to a legal secretary who lived out her greatest fear when an elevator in her office b...
The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday endorsed a community court that could send homeless and mentally ill ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Samuel Lee Johnson was arrested on murder charges in 1996, he was allowed the usual two free phone calls ...
On Friday, Father Gregory Boyle, the no-nonsense street priest of East Los Angeles' gang kids, buried his 84th child-victim of...
The judge presiding over the corruption trial of four Los Angeles Police Department Rampart Division officers granted a key de...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Panel Admonishes Retired Orange County Judge
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Orange County judge who improperly intervened in several cases to help friends and relatives has bee...
Partners from Santa Monica's Belin Rawlings & Badal have closed shop to follow new opportunities. The 10-attorney litigati...
Gil Garcetti promises to get to the bottom of Rampart and put officers on notice that police corruption will result in stiff p...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has ruled that a woman who has no marriage license cannot pursue a wrongful death acti...
A California appellate court has held that a shareholders' derivative suit for malpractice can be brought against outside coun...
Juror questionnaires show that jurors generally prefer defense counsels' style of arguing over plaintiffs' style. ...
Horns blared, tires screeched, cars stalled and onlookers gaped while a lunatic swung a broomstick at two of Beverly Hills' fi...
SAN DIEGO - A year and a half after revelations of alleged prosecutorial misconduct turned the routine retrial of a street sla...