A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday took under submission arguments on the constitutionality of a daytime curfew ordi...
Judges and Judiciary
Two L.A. Judges Are Sanctioned by Discipline Board
By Jean Guccione
In a busy day for the state Commission on Judicial Performance, two Los Angeles judges were publicly admonished Thursday: one...
Judges and Judiciary
Appeal for Funds from L.A. Justices Raises $235,000
By Jean Guccione
While other appeal court justices have largely skipped campaigning, appellate jurists in Los Angeles have raised $235,000 from...
While complaining for years about the difficulty of getting citizens to serve as jurors, the Los Angeles Superior Court had d...
A bitter dispute over whether attorneys in a class-action settlement deserve what a judge described as an "eye-popping" rate ...
The head of the Indigent Criminal Defense Association withdrew her intention Wednesday to agree to a 30-day extension of the ...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Finds Judge Failed to Give Proper Hearing
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal panel has found that a Los Angeles judge failed to give a proper hearing before imposing hefty sanctions again...
SAN FRANCISCO - Low-income residents of Alameda County in need of civil legal assistance hear only a tape-recorded message wh...
Attorneys for the county are attempting to seal court files and gag participants in two civil lawsuits involving three childr...
WASHINGTON - A Supreme Court justice has rejected California's emergency bid to block a federal judge's order barring applica...
Jury Problems Stall Ng Trial SANTA ANA - The trial of accused serial killer Charles Ng barely began its second day of testimon...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael L. Zigler, a former federal prosecutor and a partner at Morrison & Foerster, has returned to the ...
Juvenile
Defense Will Attack Staging of Youth's Slaying
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - When 14-year-old Tristan Tyson Jensen's bones were discovered clogged in an underground sewer line of a quie...
Criminal
Indigent Defenders Hope Pact Makes Them a Bit Less Indigent
By Michael Harris
Earlier this week, the Indigent Criminal Defense Association's contract with Los Angeles County was in danger of expiring by ...
Citing the importance of pagers and beepers in modern-day communications, a state appeal panel has ruled that an injunction p...
Technology & Science
Court Won't Prohibit Device To Download Music From Net
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - The Recording Industry Association of America has failed in its attempt to stop a San Jose electronics company fro...
SANTA ANA - The day that many thought would never happen finally arrived Monday: Opening statements were delivered in the tri...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Daniel Creed, one of the targets of an unflattering expose by the San Jose...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Madison & Sutro may be reversing its recent trend of defections. It has announced the acquisitio...
A champion martial artist claimed in court Monday that action movie star Jean Claude Van Damme relied on him to script and ch...
The Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is being sued by Merrill Lynch & Co. for allegedly misleading t...
The father of a key witness in an ongoing Los Angeles gang murder trial was shot dead as he answered his door in San Jose Fri...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Section Leaders Riled Over Delay in OK'ing Their Lobbyist
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - Leaders of the State Bar sections are furious over the Board of Governors' refusal to allow the sections to i...
Judges and Judiciary
Give Judges Breathing Room, Discipline Mavens Are Told
By Jean Guccione
CHICAGO - With the controversial disciplinary inquiry of California Court of Appeal Justice J. Anthony Kline looming in the b...
Under a new court policy that is being phased in throughout Los Angeles County, narcotics evidence is no longer permitted to ...
SAN DIEGO - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Monday publicly admonished San Diego Municipal Court Judge Harvey H. Hi...
Ronnie Hawkins, the three-strikes thief who was zapped with a 50,000-volt stun belt at a judge's behest, has won a reversal o...
SANTA ANA - Accused serial killer Charles Ng is scheduled to begin his long-awaited trial today and the big question is: Will...
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing the staffing shuffle begun soon after his August appointment, new San Francisco federal prosecutor...
SAN DIEGO - A community college district here confirmed last Wednesday that it paid $548,000 in legal fees to defend its boar...