SAN FRANCISCO - Finishing off the tort of spoliation of evidence, a narrowly divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday ...

An investment group claims in a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that attorneys they hired in 1996 to sue a Rancho Cucamong...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices have seemed more relaxed and playful during oral arguments this term. Perhaps that's ...

Juror No. 3 was, admittedly, a little "stressed out" when she threatened during deliberations to slap her fellow jurors "upsi...

Ruling just one day after oral arguments in a dispute between Frank Sinatra Jr. and his one-time kidnapper, a state appeal pa...

A couple who claim their daughter was killed and they were seriously injured when the tire blew on the minivan they were ridi...

Ruling that a Beverly Hills lawyer charged with fraud poses a flight risk, a federal judge has ordered him to remain detained...

SACRAMENTO - It's a crime in California to see someone's pet get shot by a hunter and not report it to authorities. And a lic...

In the first-ever appellate examination of California's Son of Sam law, the statute prohibiting felons from selling their sto...

SACRAMENTO - People harmed by corporate, professional and individual negligence could sue defendants' insurers if they denied...

Culminating a five-month, nationwide search, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti announced Wednesday he has hir...

SAN JOSE - In a sweeping victory for affirmative action opponents, a state appellate court panel ruled Wednesday that city co...

Cutting-edge technology at a new forensic clinic at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center's Rape Treatment Center will greatly aid...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that will test how far government can go to accommodate religion, the California Supreme Court agre...

SACRAMENTO - Increased benefits for workers, new opportunities for arbitration and larger penalties for uninsured employers a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor, who resigned in anger two years ago over the settlement of San Francisco's biggest envir...

Apparently despondent over the end of a love affair with her supervisor, 25-year-old Los Angeles police officer Nadine Arrang...

Seeking to maximize the educational potential of the Internet, the U.S. Copyright Office on Tuesday recommended that Congress...

Since early May, jurors have had a free ride to all courthouses in San Diego thanks to an innovative new program involving Su...

A bitter civil court dispute between Oakland City Council candidate David Hilliard and another former Black Panther over righ...

SACRAMENTO - One of Steve White's early assignments as a young Sacramento County deputy district attorney in the 1970s was to...

Sitting behind a lawyer's large desk Tuesday and facing reporters and three television cameras, the 10-year-old boy haltingly...

Working toward creating a statewide effort, Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the gun i...

SACRAMENTO - Faced with a widespread revolt in the Assembly Democratic caucus, Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday at leas...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an important victory for targets of land-use regulations, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that propert...

After months of reviewing California laws to find the best way to attack gun manufacturers, Los Angeles City Attorney James K....

A lawsuit in which a businessman claimed the Irvine law firm of Callahan & Blaine attempted to extort money from him appa...

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences attorney David W. Quinto has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a come...

Amid growing public momentum to pierce the veil of silence and secrecy that shrouds the state's juvenile courts, more than 30...

A retired Los Angeles police officer who had been a defendant in lawsuits stemming from the North Hollywood shoot-out has sue...