Updated: Saying that consumers got little or nothing for hefty upfront fees and put their homes at greater risk of foreclosure by listening to purported home-rescue schemes marketed by two…
The State of California—from its judges to the bar association—does not take prosecutorial misconduct seriously, and the result is that an increasing number of innocent people have been sent to…
John McTiernan, who directed Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October, among other well-known movies, has been sentenced to 12 months for his peripheral role in a celebrity wiretap…
By placing her physical condition at issue in a tort claim over a fall from an office chair at work, a woman effectively waived any expectation of privacy in her…
A prominent California personal injury lawyer has been criminally charged for allegedly impersonating a female neighbor on the Internet and setting up pages encouraging strangers seeking sexual encounters to contact…
An antitrust class action over the fees charged to law graduates to take the BAR/BRI test preparation course for their bar exams was settled for $49 million in 2007.
Two partners and an associate of a small California law firm were sentenced to federal prison terms Friday for helping immigrants win asylum in the United States based on false…
Actress Lindsay Lohan spent less than a day in jail after a judge sent her there for testing positive for drugs while on probation in two drunken driving cases.
A San Diego judge is accused in an ethics complaint of taping court proceedings as a courtroom TV tryout in which she made improper remarks and encouraged spectator participation.
A personal injury lawyer has sued the California law firm at which he formerly worked, contending that his pay was at first cut and then eliminated after he refused pressure…
It appears that attorney Granville Webster Burns simply didn’t see a fellow California lawyer when he drove into her as she was crossing a street on foot in Manhattan Beach.
Eight current and former officials of the Los Angeles suburb of Bell were arrested Tuesday on charges of misappropriating more than $5.5 million in public funds.
For the second time in less than two months, a dedicated career prosecutor in a central California district attorney’s office has died unexpectedly, leaving his remaining colleagues and the local…
As actress Lindsay Lohan herself reportedly admitted in a Twitter post over the weekend, she has failed a drug test while on probation in two drunken-driving cases.
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