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...

Environmentalists hope to open a new era in cleaning up California water pollution by asking state regulators to impose contro...

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, eight fresh-faced teens, wearing identical sweats, trooped single-file into a downtown Los An...

For 16 years, the city of Los Angeles has been playing a game of cat and mouse with a landlord whose housing violations have r...

WASHINGTON - Putting the brakes on police roadblocks, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled, 6-3, that the Fourth Amendment is vi...

Students interested in immigration law soon will get the opportunity to work on actual cases, when the University of Southern ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Monday denied a motion to dismiss the criminal case of a defendant who contended his lawyer...

JOSHUA TREE - A Los Angeles man who provided the drug GHB to a teen-ager who died at an all-night party in the desert was conv...

An alternate juror in the recently concluded corruption trial of four Los Angeles police officers stated in a sworn affidavit ...

SANTA ANA-- Miffed that voters forced them to spend most of $750 million in tobacco settlements proceeds on health care projec...

At first glance, Debbie Hoover doesn't seem the slightest bit crazy. And that's a real problem sometimes. "I get the feeling f...

Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles is, legally speaking, "The Land That Time Forgot." In fact, you could say that it's still the...

The notion that any cyberpaced power player in American politics today could maintain an "unfailingly sunny disposition" is so...

Money talks. That's the thrust of Monday's ruling by a divided California Supreme Court that companies cannot be forced to pay...

With pot a burning concern to many Californians, the decision to rule on medical marijuana could give high court a new meaning...

SACRAMENTO - Bruce McPherson, a moderate Republican lawmaker from Santa Cruz, expects to be appointed this week as the new cha...

The Rodent's satire seems subtle enough to get lost on some sensitive readers.

Looking to spur economic development in Los Angeles, a consortium of politicians and business members Monday urged tweaking th...

Despite support for the protection of crime victims' rights, the Crime Victims' Rights Amendment, which would guarantee victim...

California's Lanterman-Petrie-Short Act of 1969 was landmark legislation acknowledging that restrictions on liberty that resul...

The revised Local Bankruptcy Rules and associated forms are available for downloading from the court's Web site: www.cacb.usco...

Among actions announced Monday, Nov. 27, 2000 by the justices were:

Many people who need court orders in family-law matters either can't afford an attorney or don't want an attorney.