Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Justice System published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 76265
» View latimes.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-6356
•
Next >
-
Facebook claimant Paul Ceglia may lose another set of lawyers
Paul Ceglia, the New York state man behind a high-profile lawsuit against Facebook Inc., is on the verge of losing another set of lawyers. The law firm Milberg is asking the judge overseeing the case in Buffalo, N.Y., if it can withdraw less than three...
Tags: Judges, Media Industry, Social Media, Lawyers, Mark Zuckerberg
-
Firm that represented Frank McCourt in bankruptcy goes bankrupt
Irony is one of our most overused words, but come on … News has come from back east that the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf is filing for bankruptcy. Besides the little detail that this is the largest law firm to go under in U.S. history, there is...
Tags: Frank McCourt, Legal Service, Ted Lilly, Judges, Bankruptcy
-
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor gets 50 years for war crimes
Former Liberian President Charles Taylorwill likely spend the rest of his life in jail after a U.N.-backed court sentenced him to 50 years in prison for aiding and abetting war crimes. Taylor , 64, is the first former head of state to be convicted by...
Tags: Crimes, Sierra Leone, International Law, Civil Rights, Charles Taylor
-
R.I. governor, feds fight over who gets custody of robbery suspect
A man charged with killing a gas station manager during a robbery outside a bank is caught in the middle of an unusual custody battle between federal prosecutors and Rhode Island's governor. The latter is trying to block the accused's prosecution in...
Tags: Politics, Jose Santiago, Death Penalty, Bank Robbery, Lincoln Chafee
-
New front in gay marriage fight: ACLU, Lambda target Illinois
Illinois on Wednesday became the newest battleground in the nation's fight over gay marriage, with the filing of lawsuits seeking to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. The suits, brought on behalf of more than two dozen gay and lesbian couples,...
Tags: Republican Party, Hampshire, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Mitt Romney, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
-
Tapes could shed new light on Manson murders, LAPD says
Los Angeles police are hoping old recordings of conversations between Charles Manson's right-hand man, Charles “Tex” Watson, and Watson's former attorney could shed light on the infamous Manson family murders. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brenda T....
Tags: Charles Manson, Murder, Los Angeles Police Department, Punishment, Sharon Tate
-
Unraveling the fabric of justice in the Brian Banks case
This is a corrected version of the original post; see the note below. Brian Banks spent more than five years in prison for a rape and kidnapping that, as the courts now find, he did not commit; the repercussions of how the case sorts itself out in the...
Tags: Criminals, Sex Crimes, Punishment, Judges, Prisons
-
Cities to battle California in court for redevelopment money
The city of Adelanto had planned to spend $15 million on affordable housing. Artesia proposed to invest $2.3 million in downtown improvements. Atascadero budgeted $53 million for upgrades including a pedestrian bridge downtown and a better wall at the...
Tags: Laws, Politics, Taxation, Lawyers, Public Officials
-
Porn video shot on Coliseum grounds
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field is the place where the USC Trojans play football, two Summer Olympics were staged, John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic presidential nomination and Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass. It was also a location for...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Los Angeles Police Department, Pornography, Bankruptcy, Lawyers
-
Judges sentence Charles Taylor to 50 years
Associated PressJudges at an international war crimes court have sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison following his landmark conviction for supporting rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered and mutilated thousands during their country's...Tags: Politics, War Crimes, Sierra Leone, Charles Taylor, Unrest, Conflicts and War
-
Man who killed 4 with car seeks release from mental hospital
Eleven years ago, David Attias declared he was "the angel of death" and plowed his car into an Isla Vista, Calif., crowd, killing four pedestrians and severely injuring a fifth.
On Tuesday, his attorney described Attias as a mentally ill young man who...Tags: University of California, Santa Barbara, Hospitals and Clinics, Bipolar Disorder, Judges, Health
-
Agency that runs California courts 'dysfunctional,' report says
The agency that runs the California court system has become "dysfunctional" and bloated with high-salaried bureaucrats and requires a major overhaul, according to a report ordered by California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye. The 300-page report,...Tags: Job Layoffs, Layoffs and Downsizing, Court Administration, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| AP Member Choice Complete
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Justice System topic gallery.
