Constitutional Law
President's Defenders Unveil a Case of a 'Rush to Judgment'
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff began the president's defense against articles of impeachment Tuesday with...
RIVERSIDE - Lee Perry Farmer's attorney, representing the former death row inmate in his third trial since he was charged wit...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined, 8-1, to consider a challenge to California's three-strikes law by a homel...
The case of People v. Gaxiola et al. , will long be remembered in Los Angeles County criminal law circles as the one that fir...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Los Angeles Funds Effort to Evict Drug Dealers
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn will be able to fully enforce a new state law that allows his office to evict drug de...
Late last month, the administration of Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti referred to the state attorney gener...
Government
Bar Concentrates on Legal Services, Judicial Qualifications in Legislative Sessions
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - The Washington State Bar Association is asking the Legislature for massive increases in funding for civil legal ser...
Judges and Judiciary
Washington State Chief Justice Says Courts Are Underfunded
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - Washington's civil justice system is dangerously underfunded, Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard ...
Criminal
San Francisco Prosecutor Under Fire For Poor Record of Homicide Unit
By Laura Impellizzeri
The only reason Cory Stephens, then 33, poor and struggling to stay in college, testified against two men who raped her on a ...
Civil Rights
9th Circuit Excuses Late Filing In Case of Egregious Harassment
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento postal worker was left suicidal, unable to work and so psychologically scarred from "egregious s...
SACRAMENTO - After years of tinkering with California's troubled child support collection system, frustrated legislators now ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jurors Award Plaintiff $4.5M Against Aetna
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - After an eight-hour deliberation over two days, a San Bernardino jury awarded a Redlands woman more than $4....
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether attorneys who withdraw or are disqualified from a case may t...
In what some were calling an unprecedented act Friday, the Los Angeles Office of County Counsel asked a Juvenile Court bench ...
WASHINGTON - On a historic and fittingly dreary afternoon in the nation's capital, Republican congressmen acting as prosecuto...
Product Liability
Alleged Actions by 'Pistol Packin' Momma' May Nullify Verdict
By Patricia Jacobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland jurors hid their pro-gun biases and one woman - described by fellow panelists as "Pistol Packin' Momm...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Gray Davis administration this week withdrew support for the agribusiness position in a major Central Val...
Los Angeles County's top appointed official Thursday predicted that there will be status quo budgets in fiscal 1999-2000 for ...
Ryan Jyun Nakagawa, chief ethics officer of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency, died Monday of complications ...
For California jurors, there may be no free lunch, but a Ventura County judge has managed to make the service a little more p...
Los Angeles' Munger, Tolles & Olson has tapped Ruth E. Fisher and Robert K. Johnson as co-managing partners of the 130-la...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Discipline Reform Focuses on Big Firm, Small Firm Disparity
By Don De Benedictis
Maimed and bloodied by attacks from the legislative right last year, the State Bar of California this year will have to keep ...
Appellate Practice
'Kline' Law Would Do Away With Stipulated Reversals
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The discipline charges faced by Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline of San Francisco inflamed a controversy that ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a case against the nation's largest health maintenance organization - ...
SACRAMENTO - Signaling a new direction for the state Department of Justice, Attorney General Bill Lockyer plans to double the...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Landlords Can Discriminate in Leasing Units
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Carving out a sweeping religious exception to antidiscrimination laws, a bitterly divided federal appeals cou...
WASHINGTON - The California law limiting welfare benefits for newcomers during their first year of residency to the amount th...
SANTA BARBARA - When Gov. Pete Wilson cut funding to the California Bar Association last year, he effectively shut off a free...
A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner denied class certification to a lawsuit against Kaiser brought by a man who claims ...
Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a budget adjustment for his office ...