RIVERSIDE - Deputy public defenders in Riverside County have decided to unionize in an effort to gain pay and benefits parity ...

SACRAMENTO - A Los Angeles judge's ruling has highlighted a serious flaw in a landmark statute that was supposed to make it mu...

SAN DIEGO - Neighbors of David A. Westerfield on Tuesday told how they talked casually with the 50-year-old self-employed engi...

WASHINGTON - Things are looking up for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - at least, judging by its performance at the U....

Focus Column - By Paul D. Fogel and Benjamin G. Shatz - For some time now, the Courts of Appeal have admonished litigants that...

LOS ANGELES - In a raid that began Tuesday, Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith is expected to take as many as ...

WASHINGTON - Things are looking up for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - at least, judging by its performance at the U.S...

WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court, familiarity breeds repetition. After eight terms together, the current nine justices have s...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky In Ring v. Arizona , 2002 DJDAR 7047 (U.S. June 24, 2002), the Supreme Court held t...

SAN DIEGO - Two animal DNA experts testified Monday in a closed hearing that interrupted the trial of David A. Westerfield, wh...

Dicta Column - By Elizabeth Lampert - It almost doesn't matter whether 2002 turns out to be a boom year or a bust. Competition...

Column by Garry Abrams - Never trust a strip club to pay its bills. That's the eternal lesson Ana Bernardi learned earlier thi...

LOS ANGELES - London-based Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells opened four California offices Monday after a weekend raid of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the nearly four years that Gray Davis has been governor of California, he has compiled a record of highly q...

SANTA ANA - A former parishioner accused the Diocese of Orange of concealing knowledge of a religious instructor's sexual acts...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appeal court has revived a bitter fee fight between Angela Alioto and Waukeen Q. McCoy, reinst...

LOS ANGELES - The largest nongovernment health care provider for HIV-infected patients in the United States sued the U.S. arm ...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Thomas R. Simpson has finished his last year on the Los Angeles Superior Court bench at the courthouse whe...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - "I don't think so. As soon as you start to give up civil liberties in the name of sec...

LOS ANGELES - While it may be liable on other claims, a newspaper that assigned one of its reporters to cover a Humane Society...

Forum Column - By Burt Pines - Before taking my present post as judicial appointments secretary to Gov. Gray Davis, I was accu...

SAN BERNARDINO - The Board of Supervisors wants to give itself unprecedented authority to oust other elected officials for a r...

Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - Over the past year, the California appellate courts have dived head first into one of the las...

SAN FRANCISCO - A decade ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court barred clergymen from offering school graduation prayers on grounds ...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - "I don't think so. As soon as you start to give up civil liberties in the name of se...

LOS ANGELES - The person who might be the least worked up over last week's federal court ruling to strike the words "under God...

Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - Over the past year, the California appellate courts have dived head first into one of the las...

Dicta Column - By Elizabeth Lampert - It almost doesn't matter whether 2002 turns out to be a boom year or a bust. Competition...

Forum Column - By Burt Pines - Before taking my present post as judicial appointments secretary to Gov. Gray Davis, I was accu...

LOS ANGELES - He's an unassuming "Oregon cowboy" and a retired Army captain from World War II who favors Vanna White and, much...