Members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has signaled their support for state laws that would lower to 12 from...

Both sides claimed victory Friday after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed some city officials from a...

Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan did an about-face Friday and signaled his willingness to sign a binding agreement with th...

It was what the hotel trade calls a "dirty room," one for which the occupants paid a full day's charge but then checked out ea...

If the case against nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee is so flimsy, why did the judicial system take so long to free him? Three fac...

Both sides walked away from a recent mediation in frustration, when John Allen, a victim of child sexual molestation, accepted...

Two lawyers from San Francisco's former Booth Banning reaffirmed their breakaway firm heritage by leaving to open the new San ...

By Marshall Fritz. While tax-funded vouchers introduce sorely needed competition into schooling, they have serious flaws that ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday asked U.S. officials to determine whether the United Kingdom still seeks extradition of t...

By Leonard Novarro. Cases are not won at trial. They're won at preparation, says Philip Harley. Harley, 53, was the lead attor...

RAPE AND THE CULTURE OF THE COURTROOM. By Andrew E. Taslitz. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, $18.00 (PAPERBACK), 210 PAGES ...

By Richard Amerian. "[W]e conclude a liability insurer cannot assert the comparative bad faith of its insured in the underlyin...

By Peter S. Doody. Wilson v. John Crane, 81 Cal.App.4th 847 (2000), is not significant so much for its holding, since it is li...

By Hera S. Arsen. Ask retired Superior Court Judge Bruce Sottile to summarize his philosophy on the role of a judge and he'll ...

The California Supreme Court recently held in two separate cases that under California's unfair competition law, Business and ...

Cases on application of Rule 11 to patent-infringement cases are hard to reconcile. ...

When it comes to the conjunction of Hollywood, lawmakers and kids who spend money on entertainment instead of guns, the Senate...

"Through the Eyes of a Child," an art exhibit to benefit victims of domestic violence, will be on display Sunday, 4-7 p.m. at ...

By Leonard Novarro. James Gilbert can't help being on the right track when it comes to auto defect cases. He races Formula Maz...

By Mark S. Roth. Since its inception 35 years ago in the seminal case of Seely v. White Motor Co. 63 Cal.2d 9 (1965), the "eco...

The Italian-American Lawyers Association will host a debate between District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his challenger, Deputy ...

By Leonard Novarro. Verdicts can hinge on inches and even less. If the arm on a newly installed restraint system in a customiz...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association will join in an amicus curiae brief opposing an effort by the Legal Services Corp. to s...

Thirty-three children will likely be able to attend college some day and their parents will be able to purchase homes as the r...

An officer with Los Angeles Police Department's 77th division pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge that he shot an unarmed ...

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III will plead guilty to mail fraud and a criminal scheme "to defr...

For the past dozen years, Jesse Jerry Gardona toiled away in a nondescript, one-story concrete building in the industrial Los ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler on Thursday agreed with defense attorneys that the county grand jury was no...

Those who point out problems with poor interpreting too often focus on bad interpreters and do not criticize the system that a...

WASHINGTON - At the urging of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Senate Republicans quietly have inserted into a pending appr...