At the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena on Monday, lawyers spent one of the last days of the Second Millennium ar...

Rose Bird was the most exasperating person I've ever known. As anyone who ever worked with her can tell you, Bird was a person...

In a rare nonjury acquittal, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has declared that an informant who was paid $380,000 during a 1...

As the millennium draws to a close, so does the interesting three-year tenure of a once combative state prosecutor and later i...

SAN DIEGO - A Riverside County Superior Court judge has ordered that a motion to dismiss murder charges against David James Ge...

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles Thursday indicted an alleged white supremacist on federal hate crimes stemming from the A...

Seventeen years after he stabbed to death a maid in a Hollywood Hills home, Charles McDowell Jr. has again been condemned to d...

Murphy Extends Disability Leave Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who was expected back to work Thursday after h...

The reputed gang member who contends the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division corruption scandal involves division...

Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden and his son, Pasadena City Councilman Chris Holden, announced Thursday that a veteran ...

Consumers unhappy with their goods and services may not skirt binding arbitration clauses by invoking the little-used Consumer...

Behind these prison walls echoes the soft cooing of infants, not the harsh clank of cell doors. The giddy laughter of children...

LOS ANGELES - Seventeen years after he stabbed to death a maid in a Hollywood Hills home, Charles McDowell Jr. has again been ...

In another bit of interesting timing, the same day that former Department of Children and Family Services head Peter Digre fil...

By James Cooper As 50,000 protesters fill the streets of Seattle this week to push varied agendas, they all share the belief t...

Separate and Unequal 'Serrano' Played an Important Role in Development of School-District Policy By Arthur F. Coon and Scott A...

Foreseeable Future Premises Liability Changed Radically in the 1960s With 'Rowland' This truly seminal California case influen...

^^Cyber Solutions^^ Hackers Pierce the Veil of Home and Office Computers By Kevin Lee Thomason Given the sad and strange state...

Defamation Suit by Lawyer Dismissed A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by attorney Michael J. Bidart a...

Hearing Delayed For Attorneys SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Steven Perk on Wednesday granted a defense motion...

^^Bench Press^^ Relishing Baseball Cracking up at Dodger Stadium By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Today's story poses a short test in...

WASHINGTON - On the same day that Exxon and Mobil corporations finalized the largest industrial merger in history, staff membe...

Jack Klugman is a generous man who did not owe any duty to support forever the woman he dated for nearly 20 years, a jury said...

RIVERSIDE - A second deputy district attorney has decided to run for the seat being vacated by controversial Superior Court Ju...

The California Department of Insurance announced Wednesday that three Dutch carriers have agreed to provide lists of Holocaust...

The attorney for a convicted Calabasas killer whose parole was ordered by a judge, then blocked by Gov. Gray Davis, said Wedne...

The following are some key dates and events of the Los Angeles trial court unification effort: 1991 The Trial Court Realignmen...

Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is due back on the bench today, less than two months before he's to appear in U...

WASHINGTON - A narrow majority of the Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they will endorse a federal program that prov...

Two of Hollywood's biggest assets, guns and breasts, have been in the spotlight this week. In separate First Amendment-tinged ...