Attorneys for the county are attempting to seal court files and gag participants in two civil lawsuits involving three childr...

WASHINGTON - A Supreme Court justice has rejected California's emergency bid to block a federal judge's order barring applica...

Jury Problems Stall Ng Trial SANTA ANA - The trial of accused serial killer Charles Ng barely began its second day of testimon...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael L. Zigler, a former federal prosecutor and a partner at Morrison & Foerster, has returned to the ...

SAN BERNARDINO - When 14-year-old Tristan Tyson Jensen's bones were discovered clogged in an underground sewer line of a quie...

Earlier this week, the Indigent Criminal Defense Association's contract with Los Angeles County was in danger of expiring by ...

Citing the importance of pagers and beepers in modern-day communications, a state appeal panel has ruled that an injunction p...

SAN JOSE - The Recording Industry Association of America has failed in its attempt to stop a San Jose electronics company fro...

SANTA ANA - The day that many thought would never happen finally arrived Monday: Opening statements were delivered in the tri...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Daniel Creed, one of the targets of an unflattering expose by the San Jose...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Madison & Sutro may be reversing its recent trend of defections. It has announced the acquisitio...

A champion martial artist claimed in court Monday that action movie star Jean Claude Van Damme relied on him to script and ch...

The Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is being sued by Merrill Lynch & Co. for allegedly misleading t...

The father of a key witness in an ongoing Los Angeles gang murder trial was shot dead as he answered his door in San Jose Fri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Leaders of the State Bar sections are furious over the Board of Governors' refusal to allow the sections to i...

CHICAGO - With the controversial disciplinary inquiry of California Court of Appeal Justice J. Anthony Kline looming in the b...

Under a new court policy that is being phased in throughout Los Angeles County, narcotics evidence is no longer permitted to ...

SAN DIEGO - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Monday publicly admonished San Diego Municipal Court Judge Harvey H. Hi...

Ronnie Hawkins, the three-strikes thief who was zapped with a 50,000-volt stun belt at a judge's behest, has won a reversal o...

SANTA ANA - Accused serial killer Charles Ng is scheduled to begin his long-awaited trial today and the big question is: Will...

SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing the staffing shuffle begun soon after his August appointment, new San Francisco federal prosecutor...

SAN DIEGO - A community college district here confirmed last Wednesday that it paid $548,000 in legal fees to defend its boar...

Lockheed Martin Corp. has sued several insurance companies for allegedly failing to defend it against personal injury and pro...

For the first time, Supreme Court and appellate justices facing retention elections are making personal appearances this fall...

Champion of the underdog is how friends and colleagues describe Los Angeles sole practitioner Toni J. Jaramilla. That's an apt...

A Riverside County judge has been publicly admonished by the state Commission on Judicial Performance for improperly leaving ...

SACRAMENTO - In the 1990s, gun control and tobacco regulation have emerged as key issues in California politics. The same hold...

Attorneys for a home inspection company are scheduled to appear in court today in an effort to stop KCBS-TV from airing an inv...

WASHINGTON - The judge presiding over the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. has set rules to expedite court proceedings,...

SACRAMENTO - With their opponents' campaign against their retention taking shape, Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. Georg...