The differences between domestic and international arbitrations surprise many lawyers: rules, customs and enforcement mechanis...

LOS ANGELES - Terry Friedman, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, has received the Freedom of Information A...

LOS ANGELES - With little discussion, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday approved a proposal to create 1...

SAN DIEGO - Deeming the circumstances behind the case "tragic," a state appellate court nonetheless reversed a judge's $1.4 mi...

LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys judge ordered the state attorney general Tuesday to explain why convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard J. Alatorre took nearly $42,000 in cash from people trying to influen...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday turned down a proposal to prohibit the sale of ammunition but indicated ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for former SLA fugitive Sara Jane Olson indicated Tuesday they want to postpone Olson's April 30 trial...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the Austin, Texas-based home furnishings site Living.com filed for Chapter 11 protection last year, the c...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court cited and fined one appellate lawyer for contempt and threatened two others Tuesday...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would require financial institutions to obtain the written consent of customers before sharing their ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to turn over all information they have related to the credibi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Helen Gozum Doty was confused by her lawyer's failure to push harder to defeat a deportation order against her...

VICTORVILLE - Finding that sheriff's deputies illegally searched a defendant at a San Bernardino County courthouse, an appella...

SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush intends to appoint prominent San Francisco attorney Brian W. Jones as the general counsel to th...

In Twilley v. Georgia, 71 S.E. 587 (1911), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in pertin...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a property-rights case, Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, that could advance freedom and...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was easy to forget they were teenagers. They were cool under pressure. They were prepared. They were profes...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas on Monday fired a veteran prosecutor who accused him of misappropr...

Although high-tech justice is emerging and the new cybercourtroom is spawning the development of technology-based alternatives...

LOS ANGELES - A man twice convicted and sentenced to death for the 1979 murder of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must get...

LOS ANGELES - Once-prominent personal injury attorney James H. Davis continually "robbed Peter to pay Paul," diverting disable...

LOS ANGELES - A brash French judge who made a name for himself chasing terrorists can't testify in federal court in Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - The former partner of rogue Los Angeles police Officer Rafael A. Perez pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges ...

VENTURA - Century City attorney John J. Reiner, whose ill-fated foray into the movie business led to extortion charges, was co...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster has extended its Southern California and entertainment reach by open...

SAN FRANCISCO - A closely divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a guilty plea by non-citizens may be overturned i...

LOS ANGELES - Two episodes on the same day last week raise questions about new Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's of...

The Piscitelli case may well herald a new trend in the treatment of unrecovered punitive damages in legal-malpractice a...

Among actions announced Monday, April 2, 2001 by the justices were: