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...

SACRAMENTO - Urging changes in the state's "overly complex and unduly burdensome" campaign reporting rules, a special commissi...

A telltale sign that a child is destined for law is billing both mom and dad for the weekly allowance. By The Rodent. ...

Should Orange County voters decide if the county gets a new airport, jail or landfill? Or should the Board of Supervisors have...

Former District Attorney Ira Reiner, who conceded the election to District Attorney Gil Garcetti in 1992, has given his endors...

The authors of a report that criticizes the Los Angeles Police Department for fostering lawlessness among its officers, protec...

A U.S. Customs agent and his brother have pleaded guilty to federal charges for smuggling 15,000 counterfeit Microsoft softwar...

A North Hills man pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor federal hate crime charge for spray painting swastikas and other whit...

SANTA ANA - A former computer systems manager at the University of California, Irvine, police department has filed suit, alleg...

Remember the V-chip? I thought not. For those who are drawing a big, fat blank, the V-chip is a microchip that is required by ...

INDIO - A judge Monday upheld a new tort of intentional endangerment of a child in the case of an 8-year-old girl suing a taxi...

Juvenile authorities labeled him an "incorrigible juvenile delinquent" and a "hard-core recidivist," but a simple act of faith...

More than 1,600 plaintiffs' attorneys came home from Las Vegas this weekend with inspiration and information to keep them goin...

Montenegro continues the trend of reinforcing and tightening the changed-circumstances requirement. ...

By Victoria Newman and John Ryan. Menlo Park's Deltagen Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $105 million. The compan...

SAN JOSE - In a rare trade secrets misappropriation case targeting a lawyer as the defendant, a veteran Palo Alto patent atto...

By Liz Valsamis. Nervous new attorneys can rest a little easier because California's top law firms are preparing to roll out t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Rosa family law attorney who admitted stealing more than $100,000 from divorce clients has been senten...

San Jose's Adobe Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Boston-based Glassbook Inc. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Adobe...

Inventa Technologies Inc. has applied for an initial public offering worth $39 million. The Redwood Shores Internet services c...