Kevin Rector is a legal affairs reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering the California Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and other legal trends and issues. He started with The Times in 2020 and previously covered the Los Angeles Police Department for the paper. Before that, Rector worked at the Baltimore Sun for eight years, where he was a police and investigative reporter and part of a team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in local reporting. He is from Maryland.
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Proceedings in domestic violence, child custody and other cases routinely go without transcripts amid a court staffing shortage and a law that bars electronic recordings.
April 12, 2024
Shohei Ohtani is not the first Dodger to get caught up in a sports betting scandal. What happened with Yasiel Puig offers a cautionary tale.
March 28, 2024
California lawmakers will introduce a bill to strengthen state law in favor of Holocaust survivors and others seeking to recover looted artwork and other property.
March 28, 2024
A federal appellate court ruled the legal doctrine of qualified immunity protects officer Toni McBride in the fatal 2020 shooting of Daniel Hernandez.
March 22, 2024
One thing is clear in the sports betting scandal involving Dodgers superstar pitcher Shohei Ohtani: He’s now in the middle of a federal investigation.
March 21, 2024
Court restrictions barring two pretrial criminal defendants from possessing guns were constitutional, a federal court ruled Monday.
March 18, 2024
A Jewish family’s quest to reclaim a masterpiece painting stolen by the Nazis takes them across oceans and continents, into courts and back through time.
March 5, 2024
Adam Vena’s claim that California took his child because he wouldn’t accept the child is transgender went viral. The case is far more complicated than that.
March 4, 2024
Federal judges rejected an Apache religious challenge to the construction of the massive Resolution Copper mine on sacred land at Oak Flat in Arizona.
March 2, 2024
A Supreme Court ruling that struck down restrictions on firearms is now being used to challenge long-standing state bans on blades, blunt instruments and other weapons.
Feb. 28, 2024