Authorities in Los Angeles are reviewing the fingerprint analysis in about 1,000 cases, after errors by six examiners came to light as a result of a local newspaper’s investigative report.
Closing a second murder case tied to the same Japanese businessman, Los Angeles police plan to announce today that former company president Kazuyoshi Miura is the prime suspect in the…
A former transit police officer in Oakland, Calif., has been charged with an on-duty murder in an unusual incident that was captured on a cell phone video and has sparked…
A former associate of Nixon Peabody has filed an employment discrimination suit against the international law firm, saying that he was fired last year because of his gender, race and…
In what city leaders describe as a first-of-its-kind judgment under a new state law that permits civil lawsuits to seek damages concerning claimed gang activities, Los Angeles has been awarded…
A cell phone video of the fatal shooting of apparently unresisting black man by a white transit police office in Oakland, Calif., has put the local district attorney on the…
A litigation privilege recognized in a California statutory scheme intended to protect citizen participation in civic matters didn’t apply to a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a nonequity partner against…
For seven years, Gary H. Green II handled labor and employment matters as an associate in the Los Angeles office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. Now he is…
A California lawyer who represented two reputed gang members in related criminal cases is conflicted out of continuing to defend one of them in a triple-murder prosecution, even though both…
Fugitive film director Roman Polanski can’t move to have a 1977 statutory rape conviction dismissed based on claimed government misconduct until he turns himself in, a Los Angeles prosecutor contends.
A lawsuit launched by a former law student at the University of California at Berkeley has netted some $33 million in refunds—make that $42 million, counting interest—for tuition overcharges to…
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a revised lawsuit that contends the government illegally wiretapped two lawyers for an Islamic charity suspected of supporting terrorism.
Two lenders who contend Heller Ehrman still owes them nearly $6 million are fighting a contention that they no longer have a security stake in the law firm because of…
Thomas Mundy isn’t a lawyer. But he says he’s filed 150 lawsuits over the past 18 months, seeking to enforce a federal law that requires businesses to be wheelchair-accessible.
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