The Los Angeles City Council has extremely limited authority over changes it wants to make to the police inspector general po...

As he had earlier indicated he would, a federal judge Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction barring the use of controversia...

RIVERSIDE - Stricken with grief over the death of her brother in a plane crash, Myra Moldawsky says she received professional...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton resubmitted to the Senate on Tuesday 12 of the 21 federal judicial nominees who did not receiv...

A Riverside city ordinance restricting poolroom hours of operation violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could have a broad impact in this state, a federal appellate court held Tuesday that a contr...

SAN FRANCISCO - As You Sow, one of the earliest and most prolific plaintiff groups pursuing cases under California's Propositi...

A California state court upheld its jurisdiction Monday over a bad-faith insurance case arising out of an Italian life insura...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors on Monday laid out evidence they said would prove that a "bond of evil" existed between Charles Ng an...

WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration cannot use scientific sampling methods in the 2000 census to remedy a chronic populat...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly five years of litigation against California's largest bank, a federal judge in San Francisco thr...

Even before a federal judge awarded him $1.5 million last week, actor Dustin Hoffman was having a ball suing the pants off Lo...

SACRAMENTO - With little fanfare, Gov. Gray Davis has proposed that the counties - not the state - pay $100 million in federa...

Expressing concern that a recent decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would hamper the city's efforts to enfor...

WASHINGTON - Handing a major victory to employers, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that a company may use the surp...

Joyce Luther Kennard's message to battle-weary, often underpaid attorneys was simple and elegant: "Continue to bring hope to ...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a major issue under the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court announced Friday that it will consider wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - Efforts by San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne and a battery of private law firms to bring an unusual ca...

SEATTLE - Washington Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders traded his robe for a microphone to host a call-in show on KIRO Ne...

Noting the defendant's job as a Los Angeles County deputy public defender must have made him aware having sex with an underag...

A judge Friday turned down a bid by prosecutors to reverse his previous ruling assigning a high-security San Fernando Valley ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to pay a record $11 million to a paralyzed man to settle his negligence...

DENVER - In an impassioned plea for more funding for the courts, Colorado Chief Justice Mary J. Mullarky told a joint session...

Awarding actor Dustin Hoffman $1.5 million in damages, a federal judge ruled Friday that the actor, along with other celebrit...

Today, Lisa Stern will go to court to try and collect on an insurance policy. But this is no ordinary bad-faith battle. The p...

MARTINEZ - Charles James loves his job. He just moved into a new office, works with a highly competent staff and is respected...

SACRAMENTO - California drivers who don't carry mandatory insurance have become intimate with the threat of punishment. But f...

The new law clarifying how lawyers from outside California may participate in arbitrations in the Golden State has been in ef...

SACRAMENTO - A key Democratic lawmaker will introduce legislation to prohibit lawsuit settlements that cloak evidence of prod...

Bet Tzedek Legal Services and Fox News have been sued by a lender over a local television broadcast that the lender says wron...