At Issue: By Leonard Novarro Proposition 65 came under the gun recently. And when the smoke cleared, a landmark settlement in ...

Bay Area businesses beware: A watchdog group bent on cracking down on computer software pirates has named two Bay Area busines...

SAN DIEGO - Claiming that murder charges against his client have been "indelibly stained" by prosecutorial misconduct, a defen...

Just because you think a Social Security number is the "mark of the Beast" - prophesied in the biblical book of Revelation to ...

Nearly 224 years ago, to the day, that this country's Declaration of Independence was signed, advocates of free speech are fig...

On the Move: Carole Handler, co-head of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler's entertainment practice group, is leaving the...

Once referred to by Westerners as a "living god," the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet expressed purely human delight as he thanked su...

One of the first three police officers charged in the Rampart corruption scandal has not demonstrated any conflict of interes...

An appellate court has overturned a record $174.9 million jury award to Mycogen Corp. over the rights to a genetically enhance...

On the Move: Century City-based Blanc Williams Johnston & Kronstadt, an intellectual property and entertainment boutique c...

etween 87,000 and 140,000 Californians who own cars purchased out of state are entitled to refunds from the Department of Moto...

By Daryl Lease Maybe it's all harmless fun, but I'm a little troubled by the news that both organized crime (the Mafia) and d...

California abortion rights advocates on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with two majority opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The Practitioner: Litigation By John S. Caragozian and Donald E. Warner Jr. An employer must provide relevant employee addre...

FORUM: By Douglas W. Kmiec Sometimes first impressions are mistaken. Recent headlines reported a Supreme Court decision pittin...

It was one of those moments that makes life in the City of the Angels so interesting and worthwhile. Under the companionable s...

In a settlement billed as one of the nation's largest consumer recoveries, the San Francisco district attorney and federal ban...

Police Outline Plan To Handle Protests Federal and local police officials Wednesday outlined their plans to handle the tens o...

The Judicial Council has certified a trial court unification vote in Kern County, making the Central Valley county the 56th an...

In an unusual move, a state appellate court has decided to take into account a lawyer's pattern of incompetence, ruling a Los ...

Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips has announced it will provide outside legal counsel to the Democratic National Conv...

County Settles 911 Case for $450K The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a $450,000 payout to settle a 1990 ...

Score one for newspaper heiress Patty Hearst Shaw in the skirmish over a judge's gag order in the bombing conspiracy trial of ...

The lawyer for a Rampart officer acquitted in a recent board of rights hearing has called on District Attorney Gil Garcetti to...

DENVER - The Supreme Court gave states more authority to curb anti-abortion demonstrations outside health clinics, ruling 6 to...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a federal program that places equipment purchased with taxpayer money in private s...

SAN DIEGO - Having nearly completed law school, Michael D. Shields was planning to take the bar exam later this year. Now he m...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday ruled, 5-4, that state anti-discrimination laws cannot prevent the Boy Scouts from ba...

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Nebraska law banning so-called partial-birth abortions...

FORUM: By Janet M. LaRue For decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed parents' rights to control the upbringing of their...