SAN JOSE - Some 66-year-olds, contemplating their upcoming retirement, dream of traveling the world or relaxing at home. Not A...

A state appellate court in San Francisco appeared reluctant Tuesday to decide the fate of regulations that govern how insuranc...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 35 years with the Boy Scouts, 1st District Court of Appeal Justice James Lambden has turned in his scout...

In the mid-1970s, in the aftermath of Watergate, two young lawyers often rode to work together on the bus. Though barely out o...

SANTA ANA - A judge's decision to set aside a $1 million jury verdict in favor of a man who charged that police brutalized him...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors may speak to jurors about a defendant's demeanor before he was read his Miranda rights - as long ...

By Janet M. LaRue. This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court chose to protect porn profits over children in United States v. Playboy...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has ordered a Los Gatos computer components firm to pay $4.2 million to a competitor to cover ...

The California Supreme Court has upheld the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements that are fair. ...

By Mark McCaffrey. One might wonder whether Arnold Schoenberg, the father of atonal, discordant modern music, would have appro...

Theodor C. Albert of Albert, Weiland & Golden, a Chapter 7 trustee, and attorney Stanley Minier of the Law Office of Stanl...

By Kathrin Mautino. For many years, the laws regulating asylum were subject to political and cultural influences. During the C...

Los Angeles County senior citizens soon may have a weapon to defend their pocketbooks from exploitation. ...

William Rosar will not get his day in court. A state appellate court has affirmed the dismissal of his disability discriminati...

A preliminary hearing for Los Angeles Police Officer Nino Floyd Durden, who is accused of framing and trying to murder an unar...

WASHINGTON - Reacting to the Firestone-Ford tire fiasco, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she and Judic...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor on Tuesday scheduled a Sept. 25 preliminary hearing for two men charged wit...

Tim Pestotnik discovered the information almost by accident. One day last month, he stopped by Charlie Bird's office at Luce, ...

SANTA ANA - The president of Irvine Valley College has filed a lawsuit against the South Orange County Community College Distr...

American Civil Liberties Union attorneys charged Tuesday that thousands of public school students in California don't have tex...

An alleged carjacker accused of holding up President Clinton's motorcade last month while leading police on a high-speed freew...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has closed the book on charges that a Los Angeles judge had improperly us...

The Los Angeles Police Department will be required to document searches, as well as vehicle and pedestrian stops, make major u...

A Woodland Hills attorney received money from a Washington, D.C., pro-police group to represent a now-retired officer in the n...

SAN FRANCISCO - A decision in a case challenging Los Angeles' ban on gun sales at the Pomona fairgrounds was delayed Tuesday w...

State Sen. Hilda Solis, D-El Monte, and Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday joined leaders of the fight ...

Firms should beware of beauty contests during boom times. By Anne Bothwell. ...

By Stephen Yagman. I am told that there was a Rico Petrocelli who played third base for the Boston Red Sox. RICO, also known a...

By Mark Steinberg. Dubyah blew it. And he blew it in the view and hearing of the entire Labor Day crowd. In a single, self-ind...

By Jeffrey A. Goldfarb. On March 29, the U.S. Supreme Court, in City of Erie v. Paps A.M., reaffirmed its prior decision in Ba...