The California Supreme Court dealt Phillip Morris USA another blow last week in a ruling that may revitalize hundreds of lawsuits against the company. Smokers in California who are diagnosed with a second smoking-related disease are no longer barred from bringing a tobacco lawsuit if they previously failed to file suit over a different smoking ailment. In 1989, Nikki Pooshs was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

If you don’t like a law, you can always seek to change it. John Wesley Ewell sought to change California’s three-strikes law several decades ago. Ewell managed to narrowly avoid the three-strikes law, which provided for 25 years to life…

The United States Supreme Court has taken up the issue of California’s horribly over-crowded prisons. Right now in California prisons, one inmate dies every eight days from lack of medical care.

California’s Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of 18 criminal cases, and the reason might surprise you. The cases were not dismissed for lack of evidence, but for lack of judges. There were simply not enough judges in enough courtrooms…

It’s a good gig if you can land it.

In a previous post, we discussed the application of Attorney General Jerry Brown, on behalf of the state of California, to resume state executions of death row inmates. Executions have been stayed in the state since a 2006 ruling by… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com.

He has moved far away from his days as “Governor Moonbeam.” Today, California Attorney General and current gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is asking that California resume enforcement of the death penalty.

If you’ve ever received a parking ticket for failure to move your vehicle for the street sweeper, you’re going to want to keep an eye on a potential new photo parking ticket law in California. Because under the measure, AB 2567, which was recently approved by the California Senate, the street sweeper will be watching you.

The CA Senate has passed a bill designed to increase restrictions on violent sexual predators. AB 1844, known as “Chelsea’s Law,” was passed unanimously by the California state senate Tuesday.

“Don’t Tase me bro!” It was one of the top quotes of 2007. Andrew Meyer, a student at the University of Florida, shouted it moments before being hit with a Taser and arrested for allegedly inciting a riot, resisting an officer and disturbing the peace. Meyer had been in the process of trying to ask uncomfortable questions to Senator John Kerry at a Constitution Day forum.