Superior Court Judge Charles C. Kobayashi's May 8 ruling in Marine Forests Society v. California Coastal Commission, 00...

The court stated that the distinction among permissible users of second units violated both privacy and equal-protection right...

Should we ban pit bulls and similar dog breeds? ...

No society in the world offers its citizenry access to a legal system comparable to that available in the United States. But i...

LOS ANGELES - A diverse swath of Los Angeles stretching from Hollywood to just west of downtown has a voice in City Hall for t...

LOS ANGELES - In light of an appellate court ruling, a federal judge reversed himself Thursday and said Los Angeles City Counc...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney-elect Rockard J. "Rocky" Delgadillo on Thursday named O'Melveny & Myers litigation...

SANTA ANA - A former Orange County jail inmate has filed a federal civil rights suit accusing sheriff's deputies of failing to...

LOS ANGELES - A lot of parents spend a small fortune sending their kids to law school, and for most, watching their children r...

SAN JOSE - Cadence Design Systems is asking a judge to award a whopping $700 million in compensation for lost profits and othe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A trailblazing domestic partners ordinance, requiring San Francisco city contractors to provide equal benefits...

SAN FRANCISCO - Next month, with the near-certain cooperation of an Oakland judge, Alameda County Assistant District Attorney ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs' attorneys have failed to prove that nine oil giants conspired to bilk consumers by raising gasolin...

LOS ANGELES - Denise Hart grinned, showing missing front teeth. It's part of the price she's paid as a former junkie who has s...

LOS ANGELES - In a Clintonesque opinion that parses the meaning of "it," a state appellate court has ruled that a witness has ...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who allegedly sent more than 100 menacing e-mails to opposing counsel after losing an egg price-fixing ...

If the conduct did not walk like harassment, or quack like harassment, Breeden enjoyed no legal protection in her complaint ac...

There's a Credence Clearwater Revival line about "some folks inherit star spangled eyes, they'll lead you down to war, and whe...

On May 29, the U.S. Supreme Court swung the disability pendulum again - this time toward the disability community, or at least...

SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has created a new practice group at the intersection of financial services...

In Ferguson v. Moore, 98 Tenn. 342, 39 S.W. 341 (1897), Judge John S. Wilkes found the following for the court, in pert...

Attorney-client agreements should describe how documents will be returned or destroyed once a matter is concluded. ...

SANTA ANA - For Sharon Hiser, an $8.7 million jury verdict against Bell Helicopter is bittersweet. The award means justice to ...

LOS ANGELES - Paralegals, court clerks and judicial assistants for the Los Angeles Superior Court will receive raises up to 18...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury has awarded $1.5 million to a psychiatrist who alleged he was fired because he refused to prescribe ge...

SAN JOSE - Larry Ellison will get to land his personal jet at San Jose International Airport, according to a federal judge's r...

SAN FRANCISCO - California police officers retain the unique statutory right to sue citizens who file false complaints against...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered California's long-term electricity contracts made public, but she ques...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judicial panel has tapped a Washington state judge with a long antitrust resume to preside over laws...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Press Club has honored several of the Los Angeles Daily Journal's reporters and editors with top...