San Diego Judge David J. Danielsen says he wants to better define the California Judges Association's role in what he called ...

Medical records in a case settled Tuesday by Los Angeles County for nearly $1.3 million were altered by medical personnel, ac...

SAN FRANCISCO - The horrific scenario is familiar: A child obtains a handgun and blasts away. But how should the law deal wit...

Nearly a year after a recommendation from the state auditor, Los Angeles County is planning to conduct a needs assessment for...

SAN DIEGO - While pro bono efforts to help the less fortunate appear to be on the rise across the country, in San Diego the n...

SACRAMENTO - It would be understandable if California's plaintiffs' bar was imbued with a giddy optimism, given its early leg...

SACRAMENTO - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would make it easier for people force...

RIVERSIDE - Lawyers for the family of Tyisha Miller filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Riverside and fi...

On average, one child a week is killed by a care-giver in Los Angeles County. And District Attorney Gil Garcetti, the chairma...

SAN DIEGO - Whether the death of 13-month-old Christopher Evan Oliver Smith resulted from something that happened at his day ...

Consideration of a proposed $500,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by an executive who spent nine years in jail for allegedly...

WASHINGTON - Citing "serious problems" with the jury system in America and with minority perceptions of the justice system, U...

A $4.2 billion budget for fiscal 1999-2000 approved Monday by the Los Angeles City Council includes funding for City Attorney...

In a settlement Los Angeles prosecutors hope will serve as a warning to other lawyers engaged in insurance fraud, suspended at...

A state appeal panel held late Monday that a woman who paired up with actress Loni Anderson to sell skin care products throug...

WASHINGTON - Dealing a blow to the welfare-reform movement in a case from California, the Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, Monday th...

SACRAMENTO - The judiciary would get 12 new appeal court judges and 20 new trial court jurists, and $19.1 million to fix year...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - A state court of appeals judge granted a partial stay Friday in the case of Center for Creative Alternatives,...

Denying federal prosecutors' allegations that he threatened the life of a federal judge, a Beverly Hills lawyer charged with ...

Despite a jury that deadlocked overwhelmingly in favor of acquittal, prosecutors have announced they intend to retry an Antel...

A San Bernardino County judge has refused to issue a certificate of rehabilitation for a former Los Angeles County prosecutor...

SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard, which has been fighting several legal battles to maintain control of the lucrative market for the...

As lawyers' practices become more specialized, technology keeps advancing and busy firms get even busier, finding a competent...

The Los Angeles City Council has settled a case for more than $163,000 in which a federal judge had awarded just $20,000 to t...

A Los Angeles judge has dismissed charges that a Compton police officer had sex with an underage girl after prosecutors annou...

WASHINGTON - Public criticism of judicial decisions may serve a useful purpose in our society, but it must not compromise jud...

SAN FRANCISCO - The explosion of securities litigation has produced a backlog of 500 federal shareholder actions since 1995, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel has ruled that a court reporter, accused of airing a district court's "dirty laundry"...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a overall victory for the state's judicial watchdog agency, the state Supreme Court on Thursday held that ...

The Citizens for the Constitution, a project of the New York-based Century Foundation, developed the following eight guidelin...