SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judicial election has turned sour during the last month of campaigning, and at the...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday approved a foster parent's $1.2 million settlement offer for the care of a toddler...

Reversing his position on a high-profile policy issue for the second time in less than a month, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. R...

SAN DIEGO - From Sacramento to San Diego, California prosecutors, advocacy groups and civil rights organizations that have bee...

A market with a shoddy inspection policy was held liable for a slip-and-fall even though the plaintiff could not prove how lon...

Like the sign that says, "Ignore Dog, Beware of Owner," judges' voice-mail greetings reveal something about them. ...

If Judge Gary Allen Feess oversees the Rampart consent decree, the LAPD will never be reformed. ...

All tenants should develop corporate policies regarding the delivery of estoppel certificates. ...

Following an 11-day preliminary hearing, a San Francisco judge discharged arson and vandalism counts Wednesday against a 50-y...

This week's one-day job walkouts of unionized county workers, most of them support staffers demanding higher wages, have so fa...

The Los Angeles County public defender closed eight of its branch offices and the district attorney's family-support operation...

Judge Robert A. Dukes won his peers' vote Wednesday for assistant presiding judge of Los Angeles Superior Court. ...

VENTURA - Prosecutors have dropped charges against two of the three defendants accused of attempting to extort $310,000 from m...

A big smile spread across the face of Harland W. Braun, defense lawyer for one of the officers in the Rampart police corruptio...

The first trial resulting from the worst scandal in Los Angeles Police Department history opened Wednesday. Attorneys represen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Significantly expanding job protections for handicapped workers, an 11-judge federal appellate panel ruled Wed...

WASHINGTON - With precedent appearing to support it, a majority of the Supreme Court justices on Tuesday were surprisingly hos...

SAN JOSE - Score another victory for an out-of-state company in the legal tussle over whether they can enforce contract clause...

City Council members said Wednesday they wished they had noticed sooner that $7.9 million in federal grants that could have be...

Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to mail fraud and bre...

Dear Mr. Abrams, aka the Judgmental Journalist, Because you are the Ann Landers of legal columnists, I am asking for your advi...

If an attorney wants a summary judgment to stand up on appeal, he must get the court to rule on his evidentiary objections. ...

It is refreshing to find that there is a high degree of consensus among Americans about the importance of families to the heal...

Since the end of the Democratic Party Convention on Aug. 17, the Los Angeles Police Department has been showered with praise. ...

Mark Pulliam of Latham & Watkins had been trying for about two years to get California Supreme Court Associate Justice Jan...

Continuing a harsh attack on Los Angels police officials, a civil rights lawyer clashed with members of the Police Commission ...

A 36-year-old deaf woman from Glendale has won a $42,000 settlement against a local physician for refusing to provide an inter...

SAN DIEGO - Asserting that his office had "professionally fulfilled its obligations to the public and defendants," District At...

The city of Los Angeles paid out more than $4.1 million in police misconduct verdicts and settlements in the first six months ...

A jury has hit the Los Angeles Unified School District with a $4.25 million verdict in the drowning of a 15-year-old special e...