RIVERSIDE - It's been more than a year since the passage of the Trial Court Funding Act, or AB233, and judicial officials in ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Thursday postponed ruling on whether to grant a preliminary injunction against Vietnamese ...

SAN JOSE - The much-delayed Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case, which was filed in 1997, is scheduled to go to trial bef...

A music producer has sued singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg and his accountants at the now-defunct Coopers & Lybrand, claim...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jackson, Tufts, Cole & Black, a 35-year-old Bay Area firm, is closing its doors. "The partners of the fir...

A proposed comprehensive bill, written by a Los Angeles prosecutor, would ban anyone under a domestic violence restraining or...

Perhaps foreshadowing action Monday by the American Bar Association's policy-setting body, the organization's Board of Govern...

In a victory for the Church of Scientology International, a state appeal court Thursday made it harder for a longtime adversa...

SACRAMENTO - For reproductive health-care advocates, particularly in California, the legal and political environment for abor...

SACRAMENTO - The following quantifies the rising influence of Catholic hospitals and their impact on access to reproductive h...

VENTURA - After biting into a beef burrito from Taco Bell that he thought was a vegetarian item, Mukesh Rai claimed he would ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A war of words erupted within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, with five dissenting judges acc...

Los Angeles County prosecutors Wednesday voiced irritation that a Municipal Court commissioner, acting on a probation departm...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rejecting appeals from both sides, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to decide the extent to ...

A tangled dispute over the film, television and video rights to the comic book character Spiderman became less twisted Wednes...

In a volatile and unprecedented case with more twists and turns than a roller coaster, a Los Angeles Juvenile Court bench off...

Comedian Craig Shoemaker, Magic Johnson's sidekick on the former basketball great's ill-fated talk show, wants $10 million fr...

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...