SANTA ANA - An Orange County graphic designer has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit alleging that, when he complained that ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Judges can approve warrants with the click of a mouse, and court staff don't have to go any further than thei...

SANTA ROSA - You have constitutional rights, but you better respect those rights, a local attorney told 45 high school student...

LOS ANGELES - After months on the sidelines, the Los Angeles City Council signaled Tuesday that it will take a stronger role i...

SANTA BARBARA - Piercing the attorney-client privilege, a judge ruled Tuesday that a criminal defense lawyer could be forced t...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to create California's first comprehensive substance abuse program for addicted lawyers cleared the Se...

LOS ANGELES - On a warm spring afternoon in an empty dining hall on the campus of a century-old boys' home, three teen-agers s...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Beverly Hills family law and celebrity divorce attorney Norman M. Dolin. Dolin die...

ORANGE - An Orange County family law judge broke new legal ground Tuesday by granting the adoption petition of a man who died ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seven years after a San Francisco jury punished the world's largest law firm with the nation's largest damage ...

LOS ANGELES - In Hollywood's hottest legal dispute, everyone agrees on only one thing: The parties did try to settle. But the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Cottle, the presiding justice of the state Court of Appeal in San Jose, announced his retirement M...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the midst of the California energy debacle, it may be easy to forget that not very long ago the only news a...

If there was any doubt as to whether the plaintiff in an attorney malpractice case has a constitutional right to a jury trial,...

LOS ANGELES - Samuel Gorlick, Burbank's city attorney from 1961 to 1982, has died. Gorlick died at Providence St. Joseph's Med...

In a move that already has triggered a lot of controversy, the Bush administration reportedly will try to curb the ability of ...

The definition of meeting the basic needs of the working poor in California must be broadened. It often is assumed that if the...

LOS ANGELES - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson did not get the five-month postponement in her trial th...

INDIO - The prosecutor in Robert Downey Jr.'s Palm Springs drug case said Proposition 36 likely will save the actor from a ret...

WASHINGTON - Settling a major area of dispute between Native American tribes and non-Native American businesses, the Supreme C...

LOS ANGELES - Citing mistakes by the trial court that kept Latinos off the jury, the state Supreme Court overturned a death se...

A series of fraudulent items, and some encouraging court decisions, have convinced eBay to monitor its Internet auction list...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dead celebrities got a boost from the California Supreme Court on Monday in a ruling that makes it harder for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state announced Monday that it has agreed to pay more than $114 million to the federal government to settl...

LOS ANGELES - Stanford University law school Dean Kathleen Sullivan has been incommunicado in recent days. Her office says Sul...

LOS ANGELES - Two recent and apparently contradictory appellate rulings regarding the rights and liabilities of out-of-state l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Napster may have to give up the media limelight for a while as oral arguments in another closely-watched Inter...

LOS ANGELES - Sears, Roebuck and Co. and MemberWorks Inc. have agreed to pay a combined $2 million in civil penalties for what...

Among actions announced Monday, April 30, 2001 by the justices were:

LOS ANGELES - After 30 years in the business, film distributor Tom Bernard thought he had seen and heard it all. Of course, fo...