SACRAMENTO - Two trial judges uphold domestic partnership rights for same-sex couples. One - appointed by a Democrat - is the ...

LOS ANGELES - A man accused of contracting to kill his sister can be changed with attempted murder, even if the hit man he hir...

WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary has slashed 1,350 jobs in the past 12 months as it dealt with a continuing budget crunch, t...

SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't fair for a judge to stop an accused Montana pot dealer from confronting a snitch, so a federal appel...

LOS ANGELES - Caltech graduate student William Cottrell proclaimed his hatred of SUVs on the witness stand Wednesday, but he d...

Column By Garry Abrams - The Motion Picture Association of America and the U.S. Department of Justice apparently hope to add i...

SAN DIEGO - The League of Women Voters of San Diego filed suit Wednesday seeking an order requiring the registrar of voters to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Calling the state's prison guard discipline system "broken to the core," U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson...

Letter to the Editor - I find it interesting that [Garry Abrams] identifies the objections of "conservative groups" as a signi...

INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Outdoor Dimensions Inc. has signed a 94-month lease for an 110,000-square-foot industrial facility locate...

LOS ANGELES - In April 2001, a 16-year-old El Monte high-school student, with no previous record and a gift for poetry, recei...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Joel M. Grossman - It is close to midnight. The mediation has lasted 15 hou...

Forum Column - By Noah W. Griffin - With the recent illness of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, many are...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Tuesday refused to issue an order that would have prohibited election officials from certifyin...

LOS ANGELES - Upscale clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch will pay $40 million to employees and rejected job applicants...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge testified Tuesday that dispensing justice from a strip club wasn't "what I ne...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paula Kamena, a former probation officer who became Marin County's first female district attorney, has announ...

Column - By Philip Carrisoza - Excuses, excuses! "My dog ate my homework." "I got caught in traffic." "I thought someone else ...

LOS ANGELES - Once as wide as the geographic gulf between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the artistic divide between the film a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco-based special master has unusually broad investigative powers to enforce reforms within the C...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury is told that DNA testing that matched evidence to a black rape-murder suspect had a 1 in 96 billion ch...

SANTA ANA - Three former tenants sued Orange Superior Court Judge John M. Watson on Tuesday, alleging that the jurist refused ...

LOS ANGELES - Bruce G. Iwasaki thought he'd be driving to the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel tonight to celebrate the 75th ann...

LOS ANGELES - The Credit Lyonnais litigation, complex by nature, became even messier this summer when a central figure long id...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vastly expanded the use of local committees to review bench candidates before ...

INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Cristek Interconnect Inc. has purchased a 50,265-square-foot industrial building at 5395 Hunter from Mont...

Forum Column - By John Aiello - One of the basic tenets of due process and the Constitution is that people be allowed to commu...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Rodger R. Cole - Companies increasingly are looking to recruit employees working for compet...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Republicans and many Democrats have hailed Bush's nomination of White House counsel Alberto ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - As lawyers know, the public perception of what most of them do bears scant relation to t...