SANTA MARIA - Sharlene Miller came to Santa Maria's Town Center Mall last December to catch a comedy at the local theater. Sh...

WASHINGTON - A broad grin has worked its way to Philip S. Anderson's face. "This job is a lot more fun than I thought it woul...

Municipal Court judges are quickly becoming extinct in California - at least as members of the state Judicial Council and Com...

WASHINGTON - Plans for a new federal courthouse in Los Angeles may be in jeopardy, court officials here said Wednesday, becau...

A former member of the television rock band the Monkees has been awarded $47 million in a counterclaim action against the Pub...

A national, Culver City-based anti-drug program filed a $50 million libel suit Tuesday against Rolling Stone magazine, chargi...

A sexual battery lawsuit brought by an associate against a senior partner of the now-defunct Solish, Jordan, Arbiter & Wi...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to review the current process used in the county counsel's office f...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she has recommended Los Angeles attorneys Fredric Woocher a...

An environmental law group has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against a water meter manufacturer that allegedly sold the Los ...

A man who claims he wrongly was kept in jail for more than a week after his bail was posted has filed a lawsuit seeking class...

WASHINGTON - Another battle may be brewing over a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee, but this potential showdown has ...

WESTMINSTER - In a much-anticipated decision this week, Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann will tentative...

Receiving strong support from the majority of the Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County joined other local governments Tue...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stung by a furious sanctions order from U.S. District Judge Charles A. Legge, plaintiffs' attorney Sandra Rae...

SAN FRANCISCO - A coalition of minority groups and aspiring college students sued the University of California, Berkeley, Tue...

NEWPORT BEACH - Chris Decker can't move back to the Orange County apartment from which he was evicted after police distribute...

Attorney Steven L. Mazza, fresh from having felony charges dismissed , has sued his former attorney, Martin S. Bakst, for leg...

In his first effort to bring about an early settlement in a high-profile case, County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman won a recommen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Settling an issue that troubled an appeal court, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a defendant d...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is implementing the vast majority of 56 recommendations made by a private a...

Matt Fong, former California state treasurer and the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate last fall, has rejoined Los Ang...

SACRAMENTO - To the United Farm Workers, the violence that erupted in the strawberry fields of Watsonville last summer is the...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a small defeat for Microsoft, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ordered the software giant Thursda...

SACRAMENTO - The United Farm Workers union is riding high these days with Gray Davis in the governor's office. The election o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The future of the State Bar of California currently lies in the hands of two men, and the bar's Board of Gove...

During a 1980 court hearing on spousal support, a trial judge advised Ida Schaffer that to become self-sufficient she might w...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice is seeking a budget of $21 billion for fiscal year 2000, a $371 million increase over ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected another challenge to California's "reasonable doubt" instr...

SEATTLE - The state Supreme Court has twice rejected a proposed rule to bar attorneys from having sexual relations with their...