A federal appeals court has ruled that neither a hospital nor an organ donor network had a duty to search for the next of kin...

By Peter Schrag Guilt serves all sorts of purposes in American politics (some of them entirely admirable) but rarely, if ever...

Ordinary People CGL Policy Covers Breach-of-Contract Damages The court explained that there was no evidence that the parties ...

By William M. Crosby "Lawsuit abuse," "tort reform," "overhauling our legal system" and "reining in out-of-control juries and...

Interpreters Picket Los Angeles Court Two months after their last protest, approximately two-dozen court interpreters Wednesd...

Grant to Fund Visitation Program SAN BERNARDINO - The Superior Court of San Bernardino has been awarded a $67,775 grant by th...

New Math Carriers Have No Duty to Settle to Avoid Punitives By Kurt Andrew Schlichter and Rikka Fountain The California Supre...

Lights, Camera, Cause of Action Legal education is becoming a trip to the tube By Paul O'Brien Out of work for much of last s...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an unusually blunt assessment of the state of the courts, Court of Appeal Justice Gary Strankman warned Mo...

UCSD Pays $4.7M For Fraud Claim SAN DIEGO - The University of California San Diego Medical Center agreed Wednesday to pay the...

The California Teachers Association is considering whether or not it will appeal a recent federal court decision to dismiss i...

Reacting to an increasing number of shootings in public places, the Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to install metal...

Even though he has not yet had his preliminary hearing on charges he committed four bank robberies to support a heroin habit,...

WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference of the United States on Wednesday approved changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedu...

DENVER - Last spring's fatal shootings at Columbine High School have left school administrators across Colorado - and the nat...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously declined to review former Gov. Pete Wilson's executive ...

SANTA ANA - Anil Mehta remembers the day he lost his left arm like it was yesterday. It happened six years ago when Mehta - n...

From cycling in this year's annual San Francisco to Los Angeles AIDS ride to volunteering on the boards of numerous bar and c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Who's on the hook for $116 million? When a San Bernardino County jury in January voted the big punitive damag...

In a turn of events that leaves the future configuration of legal aid services in Los Angeles and Orange counties in limbo, a...

Pilot Project Set For Legal Access In an attempt to help litigants who represent themselves, the Los Angeles County Board of ...

New Curfew Given Preliminary OK In an effort to avoid a legal challenge, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted un...

Names Sought For Jurist Award The Administrative Office of the Court is now accepting nominations for the Benjamin Aranda III...

By Joseph Charney I recently observed a felony trial in a French criminal court in Bordeaux in which the judge called the def...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case involving the video games to which countless c...

SAN DIEGO - Unwanted judicial scrutiny of the district attorney's office here seems likely to continue when a former deputy D...

In a unique arrangement, a Superior Court judge will hold a special court session on Saturday in Pauma Valley for members of ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to accept more than $5.8 million from the state of Cali...

WASHINGTON - Los Angeles Superior Court judge Florence-Marie Cooper, tapped for California's Central U.S. District Court, and...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could test the balance between civil rights and religious freedom, a male couple has sued a Sa...