Should the First Amendment protect the right of reality show contestants to eat raw rats - at least once - on similar programs...

Waging one of the most expensive and litigious judicial election wars in Southern California history, incumbent John L. Martin...

A Sacramento civil litigator prevailed in a rancorous judgeship race after spending a whopping $700,000 on her campaign - incl...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices Wednesday appeared ready to rule that a man's designation of his wife as the beneficia...

A college instructor who took bribes for grades was not denied his right to counsel even though the government secretly taped ...

Tuesday's passage of Proposition 36, a measure that will divert thousands of drugs users from incarceration to treatment, will...

Steve Cooley, the veteran prosecutor who triumphed over his boss, two-term District Attorney Gil Garcetti, in a run-off electi...

SAN DIEGO - A veteran judge swept past his opponent with 52 percent of the vote Tuesday to become San Diego's next mayor. Dick...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the multibillion-dollar question of whether insurance companies...

A squadron of more than 100 lawyers and officials from the Al Gore and George W. Bush campaigns, including a former secretary ...

The Los Angeles district attorney's office has asked the judge presiding over the trial of former reputed Symbionese Liberatio...

The Los Angeles Claims Board on Wednesday approved a nearly $11 million settlement of 29 lawsuits filed by alleged victims of ...

The court held that, from the totality of circumstances, the jury could certainly conclude an intent to get back at Verdine. ...

A memorial service will take place for former Los Angeles and Riverside attorney Sidney H. Arden. Arden died Oct. 30 at his ho...

Hickman Coleman & Hughes, a 12-attorney patent and trademark boutique with two offices in the Silicon Valley and one in Wa...

It's about time. For years, corporations have hidden their embarrassing secrets behind the shield of sealed settlements in law...

It is not only the state court system that has been focusing on ADR; the federal system has also bitten the bullet. ...

A group of Orange County teachers has filed a federal lawsuit against the county department of education alleging they were de...

While the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is still reeling from the recently ended strike, it may have to brace itself f...

Four Los Angeles Police Department officers lied about the arrests of several gang members and should be found guilty of consp...

SAN DIEGO - A superior court judge Tuesday reluctantly reinstated marijuana sales charges against four people who believed the...

SANTA ANA - A candidate for Orange County Superior Court judge who angered jurists with a campaign mailer claiming his work on...

After Mary Schroeder, incoming chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was introduced as Justice Schroeder durin...

A Santa Monica man who was injured in the airplane crash last week in Taiwan sued Singapore Airlines on Tuesday, alleging pilo...

Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. isn't responsible for illegal bootleg records sold over its service, a San Francisco judge said ...

WASHINGTON - A clear majority of the Supreme Court justices indicated Tuesday that they will uphold the Environmental Protecti...

Arturo De La Paz Rodriguez had an interesting and lucrative job. He became a foot soldier in the government's war on drugs, wo...

Who did you vote for? "I voted for Garcetti. I'm afraid to change horses in the middle of the stream," one man at the courthou...

Pro basketball player Latrell Sprewell failed Tuesday to overturn a 68-game suspension imposed on him after one of the most in...

REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo County officials are celebrating the dismissal of the last defendant in the long-running and very cos...