VENTURA - It was another routine victory for the news media, a ruling by a judge that terms of a settlement agreement between...

Presiding Justice James A. Ardaiz was among the first rescuers on the scene of a deadly car crash Tuesday evening in Fresno. ...

A state appeal panel Thursday tossed out part of an Anaheim ordinance that punishes lap dancers for engaging in intimate body...

Palo Alto - For the first time in 30 years, Stanford University gave Santa Clara County a land plan covering the next decade ...

^^Antitrust Law^^ Cel-Wreck Court Addresses Below-Cost Pricing The court strengthened the remedial power of the Unfair Compet...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has decided to put off consideration of the proposed enactment of a city anti-g...

HUNTINGTON BEACH - It looks like a prime spot for towering, luxury condos or an upscale business establishment. But more than...

For the most part, the State Bar annual meeting, which begins today in Long Beach, will be much like the annual meetings of t...

The Los Angeles police inspector general and members of the police department have finalized details on how the inspector gen...

Realizing that hundreds of thousands of apartment buildings in the city remain dilapidated despite court orders to fix them, ...

VENTURA - A San Diego attorney just two years out of law school has won one of the largest settlements since passage of an el...

From Staff Reports SACRAMENTO - A controversial period in California legal history came to an end Wednesday as Gov. Gray Davi...

Appellate Justice John Zebrowski of Los Angeles said Wednesday he plans to retire from the bench in early November. Zebrowski...

A manufacturer of semiautomatic assault weapons used to slay eight men and women in a San Francisco high-rise office building...

^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ Life After Death AB858 Was Killed, But Challenges to Mandatory Arbitration Remain Employer...

SANTA ANA - After finishing up a prison term in 1996 for the last of four burglary convictions, Michael Robles seemed to be g...

Although the ultimate goal for Los Angeles County's courts is to make a decision on trial court unification, the Municipal an...

Health-insurance forms, emergency contact cards and employee handbooks are not the only paperwork that new employees must sig...

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved contingency fee agreements with two law firms helping City Attor...

SAN BERNARDINO - A deputy district attorney wants a suspected gang leader who is already facing the death penalty for his par...

At the urging of Los Angeles county supervisors concerned about the Los Angeles police department's Rampart Division corrupti...

WASHINGTON - Adding another federalism case to its docket, the Supreme Court will decide whether Congress exceeded its authori...

When the state Supreme Court struck down Kaiser Permanente's mandatory arbitration process in a ground-breaking decision in 19...

SAN DIEGO - A pastel drawing hangs at eye level between the high windows overlooking San Diego Bay. It depicts a man so lost ...

Joe Shapiro, former executive vice president and counsel for the Walt Disney Co., died Thursday following a recent recurrence...

Gov. Gray Davis brought California's judicial system into the digital age this week, signing a bill that enables courts to es...

^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ Tough Fight Avoiding Mandatory Arbitration Clauses Once a client has signed a binding arbi...

SACRAMENTO - An estimated 14 million Californians now have a new litigation weapon to wield against health plans that deny, d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Exactly a year after a mysterious oil spill was discovered off the Northern California coast, the captain and...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Monday declared unconstitutional a state law requiring Superior Court judges to live in...