If one is interested in an individual's ability to obtain access to justice, international mechanisms should not be overlooked...

Services have taken place for Maurice O. Huebsch, retired judge for the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board in Los Angeles. Hu...

Los Angeles Police Department facilities for storing drugs, guns and money lack adequate security, including functioning alarm...

Proposition 218, which gave California voters the right to vote on new taxes, does not apply to water use rates charged by the...

Brian Toutant remembers being repulsed when driving by homeless people holding signs such as "Will Work for Food," and "Homele...

The former head of Los Angeles County's Department of Children and Family Services cannot recover costs he incurred in defendi...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Foundation, which founded a number of programs geared toward tackling juvenile crime, will c...

Attorneys who represented groups that protested during the Democratic National Convention in a First Amendment dispute will be...

Two past members of now-defunct Los Angeles firm Tuttle & Taylor have landed on their feet at the Los Angeles office of Jo...

Two men who have worked for Los Angeles County for 11 years without employee benefits finally said "enough" Wednesday. John Ho...

A Los Alamitos police officer bitten by a California Highway Patrol dog cannot sue for the bite. The dog bite was an inherent ...

A man whose suit brought about a landmark decision barring insurance companies from denying disability benefits based on evide...

When artwork or sculpture meld into the architectural functions of a building, that eliminates copyright protection under a 19...

Decertify this! This week, the U.S. landscape looks - even more than usual - like it's been overrun by the big attack dogs of ...

One of the men has a master's degree in human resources management and used to play semi-professional baseball before becoming...

After a long struggle, Joe Fernandez thought his years of bad luck, heroin addiction, prison and family tragedy were almost ov...

The challenges facing local officials trying to implement Proposition 36 - the "treatment not incarceration" initiative passed...

Even though the state's Hispanic population is burgeoning, Latino attorneys are complaining that the number of Latino judges i...

David Grunwald didn't grow up dreaming of doing good. "I was a punk in high school," Grunwald recalled. Merle Haggard could do...

Eyes welling with tears, Anai Garrido Garcia sat on a narrow cot in the concrete-block dormitory at the Los Padrinos juvenile ...

The growing complexity of the conservatorship process in California has greatly increased the costs of starting a conservators...

Services will take place in Westwood Sunday for international tax lawyer J. Blake Lowe. Lowe died Nov. 16 at Century City Hosp...

The U.S. Census for 1990 reported that California has the highest number of single-parent, female-headed families in the Unite...

Discussions of inequality in 20th-century America focus on "social goods," such as medical care, housing, job security, enviro...

Edwards, Sooy & Byron, whose roots date back to the late 1970s, is dissolving this week. "The primary reason [for closing]...

SANTA ANA - Coors Brewing Co. had hoped to capitalize on Americans' taste for Mexican beers by launching its own line of south...

A woman's unwilling testimony against her husband has led an appellate court to reverse the Fullerton man's 26-years-to-life s...

An alternate on the jury that convicted three Los Angeles Police Department officers of corruption-related charges denied Tues...

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner has dismissed a murder charge against an alleged gang member in a case tinged with a...

Five Bay Area attorneys were named to local superior court benches on Tuesday, bringing to 11 the number of new judicial appoi...