LOS ANGELES - The Defense Research Institute has appointed Los Angeles attorney Keri Lynn Bush vice-chair of the institute's L...

SACRAMENTO - Insurers filed suit Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court in another attempt to challenge the constitutionality...

In a tight job market, the methods firms use to ascertain their employment needs and to select future employees must be highly...

Although gallons of ink have been spilled about how the right-wing Supreme Court majority installed George W. Bush as presiden...

SACRAMENTO - Two men convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a Sacramento woman who was grocery shopping 15 years ago we...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has ruled that more than two doctors can evaluate a person in support of a sexually violent p...

LOS ANGELES - University of California officials denied charges yesterday that they arbitrarily excluded students of color fro...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge could decide today whether to grant a new trial for three Los Angeles police officers con...

SAN DIEGO - A judge imposed a life sentence without parole Wednesday on a robber whose accomplice was killed in the botched ho...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision paves the way for Laguna Beach to build the sprawling, ocean-view Treasure Island Re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hungry homeless man sentenced under the Three Strikes law to 25 years-to-life in prison because he tried to ...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stanley R. Malone Jr., a leader in the civil rights movement, has died....

LOS ANGELES - A Honduran woman charges in a recently filed lawsuit that Rafael A. Perez, the former Los Angeles Police Departm...

SAN FRANCISCO - A national peer-review survey for law firm managers points out several good reasons for getting the practice's...

LOS ANGELES - A crowd of about 50 homeless advocates zigzagged down a Skid Row street Wednesday to protest what they call the ...

LOS ANGELES - President-elect George W. Bush named Ann Veneman, Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott government and agricultura...

No one seems to have noticed, but California is experiencing a severe natural-disaster shortage. The reason, of course, is tha...

John C. Eastman breaks Rule 1 of Supreme Court case commentary: First learn the facts of the case. In "Legal Aid Has Strayed" ...

LOS ANGELES - Recently dealt blow after blow by court decisions forcing it to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a major r...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday to revisit its dismissal of a civil rights suit filed by a Washington ...

Bush does not believe that "we should spend public money to support obscene material or denigrate religion." ...

LOS ANGELES - Low-income residents of a Los Angeles city-run housing project can sue the city for not evicting other project t...

LOS ANGELES - Imposing a parole-revocation fine enacted two years after a defendant committed the underlying offenses is uncon...

LOS ANGELES - A New York scalper who tried to sell nontransferable tickets to the 1998 Academy Awards will get a jury trial, a...

SAN DIEGO - Motion to Strike, a team which included Superior Court Judge Adrienne Orfield, defeated The Crim Reapers earlier t...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors are appealing an Orange County judge's refusal to reinstate felony charges against a potential third-s...

SAN DIEGO - A financial adviser who insists he is innocent was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for bludgeoning his educato...

LOS ANGELES - With statistics for nearly all of 2000 available, the Los Angeles Police Department reported a nearly 25-percent...

WASHINGTON - The postelection legal drama that polarized and pulverized Americans for much of the last six weeks is fading fro...

LOS ANGELES - Hinting that it may review the type of ammunition it allows the Los Angeles Police Department to fire at demonst...