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As we reported in January, Robert Culp wants the LA Zoo's current elephant enclosure shut down and all construction on the new enclosure halted, due to alleged pachyderm cruelty. Yesterday, the judge's ruling in the case was made public and he issued a big "no."

Although it might be "understood that Hollywood sells Californication", the boys who wear tube socks on their magic johnsons are headed to court to argue that you can't just steal it. Showtime has found itself on a little roll with "Weeds", "Dexter", and now the sexy/dickish David Duchovny series "Californication", but someone forgot to ask the Red Hot Chili Peppers if it was kosher to use their word for the show. The Hollywood Reporter's...

Cornell Greathouse was shot in the throat with a stray bullet from a gangster's gun in 1993 that left him paralyzed. He was dancing at the time. The injury made him a quadriplegic and confined him to a wheelchair. In January of 2005 while he was being arrested by four Pasadena police officers, he was removed from his chair and hung across a concrete wall so he could be searched. Because the quadriplegic are...

Getting a traffic ticket in LA County is a pain in the butt. No doubt about it. But thanks to the Internet, dealing with snail mail, the telephone, heck, even people is a thing of the past. We heard a promotional plug last night on KFWB 980 about the online traffic services available at Los Angeles Superior Court. It seems that the Superior Court kicked off this educational campaign in October (though we're not sure when the online services launched).

Cynics of the world will not be surprised to find out that divorce became a whole lot easier thanks to a Los Angeles case. Citizens of this city of exes have a bad rap for treating marriage like, well, a bad wrap – chucking it easily into the nearest trash can. Yet, the legal decision that makes divorce doable evinces nothing but the highest respect for institution of marriage. It’s a case worth revisiting, especially before the new season of Desperate Housewives begins.

Well, that's one player who got sMASHed for taking short cuts...

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the city claims online hotel operators are collecting taxes and fees from hotels guests – but are not passing the full amount through to the city.