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

SACRAMENTO - The Senate overwhelmingly approved a proposal to overhaul California's child support system Thursday, but Republ...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's parole board drew stinging criticism from a federal judge Thursday for blocking access and servi...

In a case involving allegations of retaliation against judges within the workers' compensation system, a federal judge has di...

WASHINGTON - Concerned by the rising number of proposed constitutional amendments making their way through Congress in recent...

SACRAMENTO - Convicted in 1976 for his role as the getaway driver in a double murder and robbery stemming from a drug deal go...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed his first "Son of Sam" lawsuit, seeking to garnish any profits that migh...

Reining in the aggressive marketing tactics of a major brewery, a California appeal panel has ruled that the brewer's agents ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding the definition of "reasonable suspicion" in investigative traffic stops, a divided federal appeals ...

Unlike in his last case, in which he was placed on probation amid allegations Los Angeles County prosecutors had granted him ...

They sat in the green room, mouthing the lines of their scripts, then surrendered to the makeup artist's brushes and sponges....

SAN FRANCISCO - Has the state high court sent a message to the Commission on Judicial Performance about its judicial miscondu...

A bill that seeks to reform state confidentiality laws to allow limited public access to the juvenile court records of dead c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Orange County prosecutors to wipe out a lower cou...

Los Angeles County will spend about $11.5 million to upgrade the freeway emergency call box system under terms of a settlemen...

The Los Angeles County grand jury that indicted a retired judge for allegedly covering up a prisoner's escape was not told by...

SAN FRANCISCO - A now-retired Ventura County judge struggling with alcoholism told a disciplinary panel Wednesday he has been...

In his annual request to augment his budget, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti asked county supervisors Wedne...

It was just weeks before final exams at Loyola Law School two years ago when a group of students became stressed out over ano...

The State Bar must pay $107,141 to its special master, Elwood Lui, for his first five months on the job, the Supreme Court or...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. General Accounting Office, responding to a request from powerful congressional opponents of the Legal S...

SACRAMENTO - "Unusual times call for unusual measures," in the words of California District Attorneys Association executive d...

In a battle to get his share of the profits from two exotic-dancer companies in which he invested, G. Bryan Brannan, an Encin...

SAN FRANCISCO - The undoing of former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati associate Steven Y. Lee can be traced primarily to...

A Los Angeles judge did not act improperly when she displayed a fake marijuana plant in her courtroom, smoked cigarettes in c...

Florence-Marie Cooper, a onetime legal secretary who became a widely respected Los Angeles Superior Court judge, has been nomi...

Publicly commenting on the proposal for the first time, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday flatly reje...

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department won authorization Tuesday to use, in courtrooms throughout the county, a new seat-restra...

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro allegedly breached its duties of confidentiality and loyalty to a corporate client when i...

A Los Angeles U.S. district judge denied a motion Tuesday to delay the case of Derek Hayward in light of a barrage of media a...