etween 87,000 and 140,000 Californians who own cars purchased out of state are entitled to refunds from the Department of Moto...

By Daryl Lease Maybe it's all harmless fun, but I'm a little troubled by the news that both organized crime (the Mafia) and d...

California abortion rights advocates on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with two majority opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The Practitioner: Litigation By John S. Caragozian and Donald E. Warner Jr. An employer must provide relevant employee addre...

FORUM: By Douglas W. Kmiec Sometimes first impressions are mistaken. Recent headlines reported a Supreme Court decision pittin...

It was one of those moments that makes life in the City of the Angels so interesting and worthwhile. Under the companionable s...

In a settlement billed as one of the nation's largest consumer recoveries, the San Francisco district attorney and federal ban...

Police Outline Plan To Handle Protests Federal and local police officials Wednesday outlined their plans to handle the tens o...

The Judicial Council has certified a trial court unification vote in Kern County, making the Central Valley county the 56th an...

In an unusual move, a state appellate court has decided to take into account a lawyer's pattern of incompetence, ruling a Los ...

Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips has announced it will provide outside legal counsel to the Democratic National Conv...

County Settles 911 Case for $450K The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a $450,000 payout to settle a 1990 ...

Score one for newspaper heiress Patty Hearst Shaw in the skirmish over a judge's gag order in the bombing conspiracy trial of ...

The lawyer for a Rampart officer acquitted in a recent board of rights hearing has called on District Attorney Gil Garcetti to...

DENVER - The Supreme Court gave states more authority to curb anti-abortion demonstrations outside health clinics, ruling 6 to...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a federal program that places equipment purchased with taxpayer money in private s...

SAN DIEGO - Having nearly completed law school, Michael D. Shields was planning to take the bar exam later this year. Now he m...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday ruled, 5-4, that state anti-discrimination laws cannot prevent the Boy Scouts from ba...

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Nebraska law banning so-called partial-birth abortions...

FORUM: By Janet M. LaRue For decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed parents' rights to control the upbringing of their...

DICTA: By Gerald T. McLaughlin The following is an edited version of the speech that Dean Gerald T. McLaughlin gave at Loyola ...

The Practitioner: Alternative Dispute Resolution By Matthew P. Guasco Mediation has indeed come of age. What was once perceive...

Forum: By Jon W. Davidson For most high-school students, the relief of summer vacation begins this month. For the majority, it...

Forum: By Elaine Michetti The children of Sierra Leone have borne the brunt of the Revolutionary United Front insurgency. Eigh...

Lawyers to Offer Mediation Tips Attorney-mediators Gig Kyriacou and Steven R. Cerveris will offer "Tips for Litigators and Med...

San Diego Watch: By Martin Kruming A large crowd attended last Wednesday's memorial service in La Mesa for retired Deputy Cler...

SAN DIEGO - A parolee who helped convict "Freeway" Ricky Ross on cocaine charges in 1996 was never promised a deal that could ...

SAN DIEGO -- A Union-Tribune reporter, whose notes from a jailhouse interview with a triple-murder suspect were sought by the ...

The district attorney's Rampart prosecution team has agreed to modify a protective order imposed on the Rafael Perez transcrip...

A prominent civil litigator and an assistant U.S. attorney Tuesday became Gov. Gray Davis' most recent appointments to the Lo...