Constitutional Law
Use of Overbreadth in 'Ashcroft' Case Jeopardizes Children's Welfare
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert Peters - When a draft of the proposed "virtual" child porn law at issue in Ashcroft v. Free Speech...
SACRAMENTO - A measure that would permit prison officials to use force to obtain DNA samples from inmates cleared its biggest...
BAKERSFIELD - They are two mothers, each with two young sons, whose negligence had similarly tragic results. In one case, Jodi...
RIVERSIDE - A San Diego woman has sued Lake Elsinore crematory owner Michael Francis Brown, contending Brown severed her broth...
Forum Column - By Jay Sekulow - When Congress passed the Child Pornography Prevention Act in 1996, many predicted that the cas...
LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge in Los Angeles has granted asylum to a prominent Vietnamese businessman and his family, the...
LOS ANGELES - Kam Santos admits that he was drunk, psychotic and remembered little about an incident in which, he said, two Lo...
Criminal
Judge's Attorneys Learn Identity Of Tipster in Child-Porn Case
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - For nearly a year, federal prosecutors had been fighting a request from Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronal...
SANTA ANA - When Whittier Law School professor Joanne Stern heard that one of her colleagues had gotten tenure at the Costa Me...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Master Rebuffs Ethics Complaint by Lawyer
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A discipline complaint against State Bar Executive Director Judy Johnson has been rejected. The complaint, filed...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law board members ducked a litigation threat Tuesday by delaying for 45 days their vot...
Large Firms
Oppenheimer Wolff Loses Two Partners From Its Palo Alto Office
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Minneapolis-based intellectual property firm Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has lost two more partners in Cali...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Compassionate Way Inspires Candor, Criticism
By Erin Carroll
ALHAMBRA - There is the prototypical judge - stern, reserved, even aloof. Then there is Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Canda...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey J. Douglas - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition , 2002 DJDA...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court on Monday held that the Los Angeles police union should have been allowed to participate...
Judges and Judiciary
Wanderlust Characterizes Judge-of-All-Trades
By Contributing Writer
SACRAMENTO - After a long, peripatetic career encompassing a wide assortment of jobs and international travel, Judge Michael U...
RIVERSIDE - Years of bitter litigation between Riverside County and the private owner of the toll lanes on traffic-choked stat...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities and counties can enact strict laws banning the possessio...
Government
April Happenings Push L.A. to Top of Civic Dysfunctionality Rankings
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - After what seems like years - or at least months - in the doldrums, Los Angeles' criminal justice sys...
SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis appointed three lawyers Monday to the Orange County Superior Court bench, including a co-founder o...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for David Zerner, a retired lawyer, businessman and accountant. Zerner, who was a cert...
Entertainment & Sports
Actor Remains in Custody Following His Arraignment
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake, the actor who portrayed a vicious killer hung from the gallows in a classic crime film, learned Mo...
SAN FRANCISCO - An international campaign to indict Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for genocide over a 1982 massacre at t...
LOS ANGELES - Responding to the possibility that he could face the death penalty for murdering his wife, actor Robert Blake to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Question: What kind of a lawsuit could include as defendants a maker of glass jars, a fashionable clothier, an...
International
New Money-Laundering Act May Impact Attorney-Client Relations
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Focus Column - By María E. Núñez and Michelle B. Graham - Following Sept. 11, the U.S. government stepped up its efforts to de...
Forum Column - By Margaret C. Crosby - Constitutional law, science and medicine have dramatically changed since Ronald Reagan ...
LOS ANGELES - A senate bill that allows unions for county public safety employees to demand binding arbitration of economic is...
Tax
Justices Will Show Support for IRS Practice of Estimating Employees' Tips
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday indicated that it will narrowly approve the Internal Revenue Service's practice of es...
Forum Column - By Michael Fields - Medical malpractice insurance rates have shot through the roof. Insurers are jacking up the...