SACRAMENTO - People harmed by corporate, professional and individual negligence could sue defendants' insurers if they denied...

Culminating a five-month, nationwide search, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti announced Wednesday he has hir...

SAN JOSE - In a sweeping victory for affirmative action opponents, a state appellate court panel ruled Wednesday that city co...

Cutting-edge technology at a new forensic clinic at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center's Rape Treatment Center will greatly aid...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that will test how far government can go to accommodate religion, the California Supreme Court agre...

SACRAMENTO - Increased benefits for workers, new opportunities for arbitration and larger penalties for uninsured employers a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor, who resigned in anger two years ago over the settlement of San Francisco's biggest envir...

Apparently despondent over the end of a love affair with her supervisor, 25-year-old Los Angeles police officer Nadine Arrang...

Seeking to maximize the educational potential of the Internet, the U.S. Copyright Office on Tuesday recommended that Congress...

Since early May, jurors have had a free ride to all courthouses in San Diego thanks to an innovative new program involving Su...

A bitter civil court dispute between Oakland City Council candidate David Hilliard and another former Black Panther over righ...

SACRAMENTO - One of Steve White's early assignments as a young Sacramento County deputy district attorney in the 1970s was to...

Sitting behind a lawyer's large desk Tuesday and facing reporters and three television cameras, the 10-year-old boy haltingly...

Working toward creating a statewide effort, Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the gun i...

SACRAMENTO - Faced with a widespread revolt in the Assembly Democratic caucus, Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday at leas...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an important victory for targets of land-use regulations, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that propert...

After months of reviewing California laws to find the best way to attack gun manufacturers, Los Angeles City Attorney James K....

A lawsuit in which a businessman claimed the Irvine law firm of Callahan & Blaine attempted to extort money from him appa...

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences attorney David W. Quinto has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a come...

Amid growing public momentum to pierce the veil of silence and secrecy that shrouds the state's juvenile courts, more than 30...

A retired Los Angeles police officer who had been a defendant in lawsuits stemming from the North Hollywood shoot-out has sue...

After a series of deaths in 1992 appeared to point to a gaping hole in the safety net of Sacramento County's child welfare sy...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - An Orange County Superior Court judge suggested Monday that a grand jury investigation be undertaken into the...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, Monday that school systems may be sued for damages under Title IX of the Education...

Labeling it a "solution looking for a problem," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' chief judge Monday urged a gathering o...

WASHINGTON - On one day last week, with two votes on two different bills, the U.S. Senate first exhibited the prevailing - if...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled that municipalities may be held liable for firing of employees if the insti...

William Roy Dickerson, former deputy city attorney and ex-officio city prosecutor of Glendale, has died at his Beverly Hills ...

In their quest to make efficient use of investments in research and development, corporations are looking for new ways to ben...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis reportedly has proposed to retain former federal appeals court judge Shirley Hufstedler as his c...