LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming that the state owes the cou...

Forum Column - By Pattrick Mattimore - Assume for a moment that a person came to you with information about the identity of an...

LOS ANGELES - Six days after Cardinal Roger Mahony's sworn statements prompted calls for perjury charges against the prelate, ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Anyone who becomes nostalgic over conspiracy theories and murder will get all choked up over this o...

LOS ANGELES - In the shadow of a recent state Supreme Court decision to review a landmark HIV transmission case, a Glendale ju...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors often assay courtroom truth-telling better than judges do because jurors have broader life experience,...

SANTA ANA - Most defense attorneys say that U.S. District Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler is on the conservative side of the law a...

LOS ANGELES - A judge threw out a lawsuit filed against AT&T under the state's Unfair Competition Act, saying a 2004 voter...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge ruled Wednesday that an auto insurance company failed to prove that search engine Google Inc. infr...

INDUSTRIAL NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Meridith Childers purchased a 4,000-square-foot industrial facility located at 10707-09 Burbank ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles took just 21/2 hours Tuesday to convict local attorney Christian Ehlers of 21 cri...

Forum Column - By Lisa Bruiniers, Craig Ching, Mark Goossens and Dan Taylor - Eyewitness identification procedures -photo spre...

Forum Column - By Cheryl I. Harris - As we come to the close of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education , there is...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Kevin Norte - AB3078, approved by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on July 15, 2004, amends, in part,...

Proposition 21, the measure passed by voters to toughen sentences, is tough, all right. The measure can add years to a senten...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court affirmed Tuesday a district court ruling that the maker of the popular BlackBerry han...

LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena trusts and tax attorney who worked for some of the Southland's most prominent families has agreed to...

SAN FRANCISCO - An asbestos case that fell prey to a civil discovery "urban legend" should be revived, the 1st District Court...

LOS ANGELES - Garment workers ended a lawsuit and a three-year boycott of Forever 21 Inc. Tuesday with an out-of-court settle...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court will hear arguments today over whether a disabled foster child can sue the Los Angeles Count...

SAN FRANCISCO - If and when the death verdict against Scott Peterson becomes final, he will have to contend with a capital ap...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prolific pro se has taken his beef all the way to the top. Chief Justice Ronald M. George remains a defenda...

LOS ANGELES - Jurists, lawyers and others who knew Judge Alan G. Buckner will gather on Friday to honor and remember the popul...

INDUSTRIAL ORANGE - Crystal Cathedral Ministries signed a five-year, $2 million lease for a 42,918-square-foot industrial bui...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the jury of six men and six women sentenced Scott Peterson to death Monday, at the very least they demon...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - I always thought if I got to meet President Bush before the election and he tried to convin...

Focus Column - Litigation - By John S. Adler - The first federal court challenge to the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxle...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals frequently is beaten about the head and ears on ac...

SANTA ANA - The reliability of relatively new DNA tests took center stage as pretrial hearings opened Monday in the Samantha R...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two subsidiaries of Franklin Resources Inc., one of the nation's largest mutual fund companies, have agreed t...