LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County courts are gearing up for a possible "massive" wildcat strike by sheriff's deputies Tuesday. ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A large industrial sale in Otay Mesa has ratcheted up pricing in that southern region of...

WOODLAND - Yolo County Superior Court Judge Arvid Johnson is a conservative, Baptist, former prosecutor who enjoys small-town ...

Reporter's Notebook - By John Roemer - Incumbent District Attorney Terence Hallinan's paradoxical campaign strategy is to unde...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty police officers charged with beating two men on Union Street last year have subpoenaed Dist...

LOS ANGELES - Nearing the end of a typically busy day in Referee Anthony A. Trendacosta's juvenile dependency courtroom one da...

Column By Garry Abrams - It's the money. No, it's the trash. The preceding is the short, uncomplicated, relatively nonparanoid...

SAN FRANCISCO - A secret federal grand jury has subpoenaed fingerprints and DNA from former members of the Black Panthers, Wea...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Who wants to rent an apartment to terrorists? The answer, presumably, is nobody. The pro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Jose labor lawyer and union organizer Elliot Wax has died of heart failure. He was 90. Wax, who ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Blazing down a busy street in their shiny tricked-out Honda Civics, David Eugene Bradley and Magin Alvarez ...

Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Kevin Kroeker and Gretchen Meisel LaChance - Long-awaited regulations from the state Depar...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - California's official unemployment rate as of August was 6.6 percent, or 1,157,500 Cali...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Interviewing by videoconference is becoming more common as law firms and corporat...

SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as California's next governor could be a deadly blow to the gubernatorial aspira...

CLAREMONT - City officials must confer with police bargaining unions before ordering officers to collect data on the race and ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sherman W. Smith Sr., a do...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Warren G. Greene will take place Saturday in Pasadena. G...

SAN DIEGO - When Casey Gwinn was prosecuting domestic-violence cases, he occasionally voiced frustration at the plight of batt...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court seemed wary Thursday of allowing people to be sued for making reports to police, ev...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser was the judge who couldn't say no, according to a transcript...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has delivered a major setback to efforts by state Attorney General Bill Lock...

SAN BERNARDINO - A civil practitioner for 20 years, San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Donald R. Alvarez discovered, in his f...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an apparent effort to fill all judicial vacancies before he leaves office, Gov. Gray Davis named three new ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Finding "hopeless ambiguity" in the statute, a state appeal court Thursday voided a law that requires homeless...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento prosecutor has filed a claim against the city, alleging that San Francisco Assistant District Att...

Forum Column - By Reza Torkzadeh - For more than two decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been sponsoring terrorism, fome...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - For Roger Mullins, the American Dream quickly turned into a nightmare....

Forum Column - By Michelle Mascarenhas and Tracie Thomas - There are still adults who will tell you that kids don't like fruit...

WASHINGTON - Responding to demands from Congress, officials Wednesday approved changes to the federal sentencing guidelines a...