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...

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...