WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary's policymaking body Tuesday unanimously approved new class action rules that give judges mo...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has barred the city of South Gate from continuing to finance the city treasurer's defense ag...

SANTA ANA - Over Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer's objections, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to tell the st...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit against the Las Vegas casinos where a convicted swi...

LOS ANGELES - A Culver City man who won an $800,000 federal jury verdict last week had accused Culver City police and one of i...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California clapper rail, the least tern and the western snowy plover came away winners in a federal appell...

SAN FRANCISCO - A splintered 11-judge federal appeals panel Tuesday reinstated a sexual harassment suit by an openly gay forme...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a measure Tuesday that allows victims of gender-based violence to sue their attackers for ...

LOS ANGELES - At a time of rampant corporate fraud and popular paperback novels portraying lawyers on the criminal fringe, col...

SAN JOSE - Arguing that it is an ideal test case to challenge federal drug policy, attorneys for the operators of a Santa Cruz...

Focus Column - By Clyde M. Hettrick, Carole E. Handler and Timothy J. Toohey - Since its enactment, the anti-SLAPP statute (Co...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge refused Tuesday to hold Public Defender Gary Windom in contempt for allegedly using privileged a...

OAKLAND - Attorney Michael Rains wasn't treating his star witness very well in Oakland Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesda...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Edward J. "Fast Eddy" Kuwatch, the Willits authority on drunken driving defense, has been vindicated ...

Forum Column - By Alan Jenkins - In an era of managed care and spiraling costs, most of us have come to expect a little less ...

SAN FRANCISCO - What promises to be a huge consumer and environmental health fight - a legal hot potato, if you will - has lan...

OAKLAND - Attorney John Russo's first Community Report Card for the city's legal department is a pamphlet that summarizes the ...

Focus Column - By Allison S.Y. Chang - Arbitration clauses in transborder agreements often cause unintended headaches to the p...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $50,000 to a La Puente loading dock worker, who claims he was wrongly ...

Column by Garry Abrams - An ex-convict has sued another ex-convict over a movie script. Robert Dellinger, who did a short stre...

Dicta Column - By Sean Carter - As Americans, we often pay lip service to lofty ideals, such as truth, justice and finding a p...

LOS ANGELES - Juror No. 5 didn't think the murder defendant was guilty. After reviewing the evidence and talking with his fell...

LOS ANGELES - A transgender woman starts cosmetology classes today after settling a lawsuit against a Los Angeles beauty colle...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major victory for consumers, a federal appeals court Monday rejected as potentially illegal the $3.3 bill...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge-elect Robert A. Dukes says he lives with a "serendipity philosophy of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis' steadfast refusal to grant parole to murderers survived an appellate challenge Monday, giving...

LOS ANGELES - Officials with the Los Angeles County Superior Court and the Sheriff's Department hope to have some answers Thur...

LOS ANGELES - The Raiders football team has won a new trial in its five-and-a-half year fraud litigation against the National ...

RIVERSIDE - Brian C. Pearcy has some major changes up his sleeve for the Riverside County Bar Association. As new president of...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - Columnist George Will said in a 1981 interview that "being a lifelong Ch...