What is happening now in Florida isn't unusual - it's just the first time that such a process has played itself out on the nat...

The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday to ask the police department's civilian policy-making panel for an update on its s...

On Monday, the Florida secretary of state announced that she would ignore the vote totals of any county that did not submit it...

In what threatened to become a replay of the power struggle over Los Angeles' first inspector general, members of the Board of...

With President Clinton's unprecedented visit to Hanoi scheduled to begin Thursday, attention once again returns to Vietnam. Wh...

PHOENIX - When U.S. District Judge Robert Broomfield was a child growing up in Pennsylvania, he liked to help his carpenter gr...

Beware, the dangerous hash brown potato patty. A Los Angeles woman who prepared an Ore Ida hash brown potato patty "in an inte...

An appellate court decision giving a job counselor the right to bring his state employment discrimination claims against the c...

The city of Los Angeles may charge spectators at illegal speed contests with an infraction if the City Council approves a prop...

The tearful parents of a Calabasas man whom Gov. Gray Davis refuses to parole despite court rulings calling for his release jo...

LOS ANGELES - Joseph Posner, 57, an Encino trial and appellate lawyer credited with single-handedly altering the landscape of ...

A San Francisco prosecutor who argued to a jury in the voice of a murder victim committed "deplorable" misconduct, but a feder...

Lawyers for both sides in dual challenges to San Francisco's trailblazing domestic partners ordinance fended off intense quest...

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WASHINGTON - As confusion and lawsuits over the presidential election multiplied throughout Florida Tuesday, a U.S. senator in...

The prospective developer of a low-level radioactive waste dump in the California desert suffered its second legal setback in ...

A trial judge did not err in allowing a burglary defendant to act as his own attorney even though the man appeared to be menta...

A federal appellate court Tuesday overturned a judge's order that lawyer Stephen Yagman attend a legal ethics course as punish...

Tired of moving its continuing legal education classes from hotel to hotel, the Practising Law Institute has built a permanent...

When the recounted numbers were tallied in Florida's Seminole County last Thursday, George W. Bush had emerged from the first ...

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The right of survivorship assures the surviving community tenant that he or she will receive the property at the death of the ...

In 1994, a Long Beach Police Department officer stopped motorist Randall Edwards. It was a routine stop, the officer said. The...

Jurors deciding the fate of four allegedly corrupt Los Angeles police officers listened intently Monday as a court reporter re...

SAN JOSE - Lawyers for an immigrant who sued two contract manufacturers for violating state and federal labor laws by assignin...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blasted a San Francisco judge, a state appellate court and a district judge Monday for f...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Monday that he has appointed Robert Talcott, a former State Bar bar governor and former...

WASHINGTON - When veterinarian Elliot M. Katz tried to unfurl a banner in 1994 at San Francisco's Presidio, he was protesting ...

A non-practicing patent lawyer from Santa Cruz has taken on the Web's most powerful ruling body, the Internet Corporation for ...

Seeking to further expand public access to court records, legislation is in the works that would severely limit secret settlem...