WOODLAND - Doris Shockley never made it to her dream of becoming one of America's few women ministers in the early 1970s. But ...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court hinted Wednesday that it may be in no rush to rule on a contentious battle over req...

LOS ANGELES - Grass-roots juvenile-justice advocates have mounted a voter registration drive to ensure that eligible gang memb...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Generally, a landowner's duty is to use ordinary care in management of the ...

Forum Column - By John Blackman - Two years ago, the state Legislature enacted Code of Civil Procedure Section 1281.96, which ...

SAN DIEGO - An appellate court has upheld the right of a school superintendent to set standards under which principals regulat...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner on Tuesday refused to drop Huey Percy Shepard's bail, saying the forme...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday clearly indicated that it will strike down a federal appeals court decision that gav...

BERKELEY - The passions that embroil opposing counsel in the drug wars finally got too intense for Deputy Federal Defender Ay...

SAN BERNARDINO - Wayne Rozenberg, a Rancho Cucamonga defense attorney known for trying high-profile child abuse and illegal se...

SANTA ANA - Adding to a recent wave of lawsuits targeting the safety of Disneyland's rides, the family of a 22-year-old man ki...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association released proposed code revisions Tuesday governing gifts to judges and judicial ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have tightened restrictions on handling waste kitchen...

LOS ANGELES - Goodyear Tires and Ford Motors reached a "substantial" settlement Tuesday with several injured Marines and the f...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court showed little interest Tuesday in restricting the use of public records to thrust ...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday refused to stop the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego from transferring property, including tw...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - What is your idea of visual blight? Is it tattered political campaign posters on telephone poles ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has resurrected a defamation lawsuit filed by a former girlfriend of the musician Prince's...

SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration officials can't force the children of permanent resident aliens out of the U.S. when they turn 21...

Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - A lot of our legal culture is enshrined in pithy statements that usually sound more imp...

Forum Column - By Deborah Wald - People tend to think of California as being ahead of the curve on family law issues. After al...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - To those in the trenches, litigation often can resemble a military cam...

LOS ANGELES - In a case of first impression, a state appellate court Monday threw out a million-dollar age and discrimination ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's attorney wants to keep from jurors all "tangible and intangible" evidence seized during a May 200...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bonnie Rose Hough, a senior attorney at the Administrative Office of the Courts' Center for Families, Children...

SACRAMENTO - Advocates for homeowner association members are puzzling over a veto message the governor issued on a bill that w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of four Iranian brothers jailed since 2001 as supporters of an alleged terrorist group must be released on...

Column By Garry Abrams - Proposition 69, the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, on the Nov. 2 ballo...

SAN DIEGO - The family had a run of misfortunes beginning in 1999. The father and one daughter were killed while cliff diving ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to rule that portions of the federal sentencing guidelines are uncons...