LOS ANGELES - A year of turmoil in the Los Angeles criminal justice system likely contributed to the end of the 32-year prosec...

LOS ANGELES - Federal scrutiny of the Police Department occasioned by the Rampart police corruption scandal prompted some city...

Last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling permitting the Boy Scouts of America to discriminate against gay scout leaders may tur...

The new millennium didn't offer much for New Economy companies that tried to go public. "Let's just say I look forward to 2001...

A Harvard student discovers that top financial stories lend themselves well to a budding ironist's need to pen pithy parodies....

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has reappointed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Madeleine I. Flier to a new four-year t...

While the year 2000 ushered in a new millennium, it may have also kicked off a recession. The verdict on that is still out, bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The employees of Animators at Law attended the company's best holiday party ever earlier this month, and to he...

In Stambovsky v. Ackley, 572 N.Y.S.2d 672 (1991), Judge Israel Rubin found the following for the court, in pertinent part: Pla...

Genomic this, genome that. What the heck does it mean? Will it make us wealthier? And most importantly of all, will it make us...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court has denied review of a case in which the parties engaged in a bitter feud over the ...

Throughout 1999 and early 2000, startup companies raised money at historically high valuations. Now, there are early signs of ...

These days, it seems about the only Internet companies making money are those dedicated to the failure of others, www.dotcomfa...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, recently addressed several important issues concerning the Americans With Disa...

SAN DIEGO - An eroding oceanfront bluff adjacent to a Solana Beach home is damaging the home's foundation, but an appellate co...

DENVER - Timothy James McVeigh may end any further appeals and have an immediate execution date set, a federal judge declared ...

Reversing a Ventura County judge's order, an appellate court has ruled that grandparents seeking custody of a minor grandchild...

SAN DIEGO - A grieving Mexican singer pleaded for help Thursday in finding her son's suspected killer, the same man wanted by ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles restaurant's suit against television station KCBS for reporting that county health inspectors gave...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not a robbery if nothing is taken from the victim, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a unan...

SAN JOSE - Litigation between technology companies and their departing employees got headline treatment in 2000, as attorneys ...

LOS ANGELES - For Dr. Ali Karim, the year 2000 started much as the previous few, confined at the INS Detention Center on Termi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prior convictions discovered belatedly by prosecutors after jurors are discharged cannot be added to a crimina...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Ricks Nibley, a retired senior partner of Los Angeles' Hill Farrer & Burrill, has died. Nibley died D...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state public utilities commissioner should be ousted because he bought stock in a company he regulates, a go...

LOS ANGELES - The year 2000 saw much political wrangling between the mayor, police chief and City Council over a Los Angeles c...

LOS ANGELES - A 23-year-old El Segundo man probably will plead guilty today to federal charges for sending out a bogus news re...

After an eight-year legal battle , Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $97 million to settle a class action brought by former te...

Forms 1099 are one of the primary ways that the Service tracks payments and generates audits.

Contrary to public opinion, the new millennium starts this New Year's Day: The U.S. Naval Observatory, the keeper of the natio...