LOS ANGELES - A defense attorney's public claim that a detective sexually molested a witness is privileged, not defamatory, an...
LOS ANGELES - Authorities on Thursday released from custody an heir to the Max Factor fortune while he awaits a Jan. 17 prelim...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge gave no hint Thursday of how she is leaning in the motion for a new trial for three convi...
On Nov. 14, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration published the final Ergonomics Standard, a far-reaching rul...
LOS ANGELES - With little fanfare, Anita Bock, the director of the Department of Children and Family Services, this month rece...
Government
Police Investigate Why Woman Threw Her Kids Over Ledge, Then Jumped
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - A single bouquet of fuchsias and white carnations Thursday signaled where on the 9th floor balcony of the downto...
SAN FRANCISCO - The "shall" issue isn't the only thorny question of legal prose preoccupying Bryan A. Garner. Add footnotes to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Now we say "shall," but should we say "must?" To Texas lexicographer and attorney Bryan A. Garner, it's a no-b...
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state government is not granting unconstitutional favor...
LOS ANGELES - In the business world, a man's best friend is often his pit bull, as in attack-dog lawyer. The Eye finds it hear...
Now that we know who the next president will be, the question in everyone's mind is: How will the presidency of George W. Bush...
A colleague told me that my monthly columns are becoming predictable. "You're cheating," he said. "Holidays, ugh! From St. Pat...
Although it has been somewhat slower to go online than other businesses, the insurance industry has made a significant commitm...
SAN FRANCISCO - A suit charging state and federal agencies with systematically denying benefits to California' homeless and di...
REDWOOD CITY - A San Mateo County judge granted a new trial to a convicted defendant Wednesday because the prosecutor in the c...
LOS ANGELES - The Law School Admissions Council, which administers the LSAT, has embarked on a $10-million, five-year effort t...
The courts' decisions will provide guidance to reduce and narrow the scope of future insurance-coverage disputes. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The holiday lights haven't been extinguished at the Bay Area's voluntary bar associations this year, notwithst...
LOS ANGELES - The Defense Research Institute has appointed Los Angeles attorney Keri Lynn Bush vice-chair of the institute's L...
SACRAMENTO - Insurers filed suit Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court in another attempt to challenge the constitutionality...
In a tight job market, the methods firms use to ascertain their employment needs and to select future employees must be highly...
Although gallons of ink have been spilled about how the right-wing Supreme Court majority installed George W. Bush as presiden...
SACRAMENTO - Two men convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a Sacramento woman who was grocery shopping 15 years ago we...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has ruled that more than two doctors can evaluate a person in support of a sexually violent p...
LOS ANGELES - University of California officials denied charges yesterday that they arbitrarily excluded students of color fro...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge could decide today whether to grant a new trial for three Los Angeles police officers con...
SAN DIEGO - A judge imposed a life sentence without parole Wednesday on a robber whose accomplice was killed in the botched ho...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision paves the way for Laguna Beach to build the sprawling, ocean-view Treasure Island Re...
SAN FRANCISCO - A hungry homeless man sentenced under the Three Strikes law to 25 years-to-life in prison because he tried to ...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stanley R. Malone Jr., a leader in the civil rights movement, has died....