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...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four companies, including what was once the nation's largest maker of the pesticide DDT, have agreed to pay $...

LOS ANGELES - Just two weeks before Los Angeles County officials recommended a $4 million settlement for 4-year-old Oei Mae, w...

LOS ANGELES - Criminal defendants are requesting officer personnel records in dramatically increasing numbers, the Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - Worried that the state's trial courts are unprepared to handle a flood of drug offenders entitled to treatmen...

SAN FRANCISCO - The daytime song of the Yosemite toad, once a distinctive part of the music of the Sierra Nevada, has gradual...

LOS ANGELES - In 1999, Gov. Gray Davis established a plan intended to expand eligibility in public high schools that increasin...

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