What do you happen to be carrying in your pockets right now? A pager? A business-lunch receipt? Spare change perhaps? ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former manager of an East Bay sewage treatment plant has pleaded guilty to federal pollution charges and fa...

Here is a selected summary of actions taken by the California Supreme Court during its weekly conference on Wednesday. ...

Nine more people are expected to have their cases thrown out today due to the Rampart police corruption scandal, bringing to 3...

Inducement to infringe a patent is not covered by advertising-injury policies. ...

A vegan computer technician claims he was denied a job at Kaiser Permanente for refusing to take a mumps vaccination because i...

Saying he believes Los Angeles district attorney challenger Steve Cooley can better oversee the Rampart investigation than inc...

A state appeal panel has ruled that, in false arrest and imprisonment suits based on state law claims, a plaintiff is entitled...

State Sen. Tom Hayden is claiming that the ever-widening LAPD Rampart Division corruption scandal this week saved a former gan...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marcellus Aaron Elder, convicted last year of dealing cocaine in San Francisco housing projects in 1995, was ...

Pasadena's Christie, Parker & Hale has recruited several lawyers from the Los Angeles office of Darby & Darby, a New Y...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy must either show up in federal court at the end of the month to represent h...

SAN FRANCISCO - In last week's groundbreaking decision expanding the "fair use" doctrine to permit some use of copyrighted mat...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney Victoria Chen volunteered to take assignments within the office that no one...

Complying with seismic-safety regulations may put California hospitals in critical condition. ...

SANTA ANA - Despite allegations that Steven and Denise Oleesky bilked a food bank of more than $3 million with the help of Gle...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Dwyer, a nationally known environmental law scholar, was appointed Tuesday to become dean of the Boalt Ha...

Graham Hollis , a naturalized American citizen who grew up in West London near Heathrow Airport, was recently installed as thi...

By Charles Levendosky Government should not do a number of things. Pushing religion is one of them; telling people when and ho...

The inevitable disclosure doctrine is a potentially devastating weapon in the arsenal of former employers. ...

Opening statements are scheduled today in the trial of a civil lawsuit stemming from charges that Los Angeles police violated ...

Three more Los Angeles firms - O'Melveny & Myers, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedge...

SAN DIEGO - Peter J. Longanbach, the San Diego deputy district attorney who heads DA Paul Pfingst's economic fraud division, i...

It was a tense crowd, brimming with frustration and some hostility. U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas had been at his job about...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant boon for employees of subcontractors in the rail and airline industries, a federal appeals co...

WASHINGTON - New session of Congress, same old story. A routine discussion of budget items in a House Judiciary Committee meet...

Prosecutor John F. Lynch, who in 1996 came close to defeating incumbent Gil Garcetti for Los Angeles County district attorney,...

By William Raspberry I suppose getting engrossed in a subplot is easier when the main storyline has become fairly obvious. May...

Program Aims to Combat Stalking Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti and the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults A...

A domestic violence temporary restraining order keeping Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alban I. Niles and his former long-t...