SACRAMENTO - Assembly budget writers aimed a shot across the bow at Kern County Superior Court judges Wednesday, excluding the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide on the use of evidence of expunged convictions against...

Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti's reported plan to offer confidentiality to any additional police whistle-blowers i...

A former district manager for Farmers Group Inc. has been awarded $17.5 million by a jury that found he was harassed and force...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices appeared likely Wednesday to vote 6-3 to strike down a Texas public high school's poli...

Companies that do business both in and outside Los Angeles city limits are being assessed a tax by the city that is unconstitu...

A former associate of a prominent Los Angeles law firm claims she was fired because her knowledge of a partner's alleged past ...

A Glendale attorney must give up the more than $30,000 he made by insider trading of stock in a company he represented, a fede...

In a ruling that could have broad implications for lawsuits arising out of the LAPD Rampart corruption scandal, a federal judg...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - It's been nearly 17 years since Grace Singh and her daughter Daphne were found dead in the trunk of her car...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Hayward police officer who angrily punched a wall during an argument with a supervisor is entitled to worker...

There's not much love for the Los Angeles Police Department in the south part of the city, if sharp rebukes of abusive cops he...

Until a couple of weeks ago, Anthony Saitta, 63, had never been arrested. Then, on March 13, after a lifetime unblemished by a...

WASHINGTON - Reaffirming its 1991 nude-dancing decision, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, Wednesday that local-government bans on...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge dismissed reckless driving and hit-and-run charges Friday against a San Francisco prosecutor who alleg...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a tax victory for baseball owners, with implications for an array of lost-pay claims, a federal judge has r...

In rushing to approve a $1.7 billion Colombian military-aid package, Congress is ignoring drug-enforcement history - which sho...

With a stroke of a pen Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Harry L. Hupp may have made it easier for millions of Web surfers to click...

SACRAMENTO - Under a proposal approved by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, mothers would be excused from jury duty...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a crowd gathers Thursday evening in San Francisco to mark the 20th anniversary of one of the nation's old...

SACRAMENTO - A bill prohibiting banks from sharing or selling personal information about customers without their consent was p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has added seven corporate attorneys from the San Francisco office of Oakland-b...

SACRAMENTO - In his annual state of the judiciary address, Chief Justice Ronald M. George Tuesday urged lawmakers to increase ...

SAN DIEGO - Prayers offered at meetings of the Oceanside City Council have caught the attention of the American Civil Libertie...

A memorial service for Madge Bradley , San Diego's first woman judge who served as a role model for so many in the legal commu...

Taxpayers who lease real or personal property to their closely held businesses should consult their tax advisers to ensure t...

FORUM Proposition 21 limited but certainly did not eliminate judges' power to determine whether to treat young criminal offend...

Thanks to a resilient sense of loyalty and a belief that they are superior to other law-enforcement personnel, deputies in the...

Members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners continue to disagree over whether they should approve police departme...

Television producer Aaron Spelling's hilltop Beverly Hills mansion, which has been the source of contentious, high-profile lit...