The defendants and their insurance companies agree to fund a program to clean up large-scale soil and groundwater contaminatio...

Since the California Legislature amended Code of Civil Procedure Section 437c in 1990, California courts have grappled with th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Meet Bruce Wayne Morris. The 43-year-old death row inmate may have been sentenced to death because the word "w...

SANTA ANA - Julianne Sartain, a partner at the Irvine law firm of Snell & Wilmer, has been elected the new president of th...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, seeking his third term of office, received the endorsement Thursday of a ke...

A Los Angeles judge side-stepped the sticky issue of whether or not attorney Robert W. Hirsh is a vexatious litigant and allow...

Disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez's alleged refusal to testify about a former lover's claims he murdere...

The Los Angeles office of Chicago-based Sidley & Austin launched a pro bono program at a reception Wednesday to celebrate ...

RIVERSIDE - A former Houston police sergeant has been selected to run Riverside's first commission to review citizen complaint...

The 9th Circuit has chosen the minority view on the liability of passive intervening owners. ...

Judges from Santa Clara, San Bernardino and Los Angeles spoke out Thursday against a state ballot measure that would require d...

The painfully thin African-American woman standing in the courtroom couldn't stop trembling. Soon, the young mother, a victim ...

In a fast-food-restaurant parking lot on Vermont Avenue in 1996, former Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rafael A. Perez ...

ORANGE - More than eight centuries ago, young lawyers in England began joining Inns of Court to brush up on the law and get me...

Finding that the Orange County Social Services Agency made a halfhearted attempt to inform a mother of a hearing that put her ...

The Los Angeles police officer's union has sued the department over a 2-year-old practice of sending so-called "Brady letters"...

With county workers back at work thanks to the divine intervention of Cardinal Roger M. Mahoney, county and union attorneys ag...

SAN DIEGO - A jury's $13 million punitive damages award to the Fresno Unified School District in a bad-faith insurance lawsuit...

The court said that the electronic bulletin board was no different from a wood-and-cork bulletin board. ...

'Snake Charmers' tells the tale of the rise and demise of a money and power-grubbing San Francisco attorney. ...

A few weeks ago, the Senate's Commerce Committee hosted executives from the film industry who traveled to Washington to defend...

An 18-year-old man pleaded no contest Wednesday to felony vandalism committed during the Democratic National Convention in Aug...

A state appellate court heard arguments Wednesday that murderer Diana Haun was convicted on a bed of improper trial procedure,...

Following energetic debate over the extent to which the public should oversee police officer's conduct, the Los Angeles City C...

Los Angeles County workers manned the picket lines Wednesday in front of the Criminal Courts Building and the mall between the...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, together with representatives of religious, disabled rights and min...

Los Angeles County prosecutors in the corruption trial of four police officers have asked the 2nd District Court of Appeal to ...

In the article "School Voucher Gouger, School Reform Efforts Must Move Toward Accountability and Inclusion," (Sept. 26) where ...

The high court is faced with a fundamental public-policy issue: the continued viability and application of the continuous-viol...

When civil rights lawyer Constance L. Rice sought a consent decree with the Los Angeles Police Department several years ago to...