SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a Los Angeles panhandling ordinance in a decisio...

Atten-hut, troops! Lost in all the hubbub about the Rampart police scandal is the fact that now those tens of thousands of unp...

Event One - On Feb. 28, 1997, as a horrified nation watched on television, two bank robbers sprayed assault weapons fire on p...

Robert Berkes didn't just read "Bleak House," he lived it. Similar to Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the law firm in Dickens' novel wh...

A majority of Americans are now enrolled in some type of managed-care organization, including the most widely known managed ca...

By Orlando Patterson The exoneration of the four officers who shot Amadou Diallo have set off heated debates on police procedu...

Man Found Shot In O.C. Courthouse SANTA ANA - An Internal Revenue Service agent was fatally shot Wednesday in a copy room in t...

The road from Port Said to Cairo is a long one. It is longer if you are watching the on-board video, which in our case was a s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed unanimously Wednesday to review the validity of a new law cutting back on...

Five attorneys are fighting for one empty judicial seat in San Bernardino County. The winner in the March 7 elections will rep...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County judicial candidates, faced with a crowded ballot and limited funds, are relying on paid slate ma...

A badge and a gun ... No matter how much we improve the recruiting and training of people who wear them, until humans become p...

The debate over Proposition 22 is now in full swing. It seems to be in the media daily. In fact, it appears that the subject o...

An Irish "smart card" developer recently sued 3Com Inc. in a New York federal court, alleging that technology used in the Pal...

SAN DIEGO - Even before opening arguments at a Civil Service Commission hearing for a district attorney investigator fired for...

SAN BERNARDINO - Gary Redinger knows that his only chance to take a judicial seat from an incumbent in the March 7 elections i...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they will rule that federal law pre-empts state-court tort suits b...

SAN DIEGO - As what once seemed destined to be a typically subdued campaign for four superior court judicial seats moves towar...

He'll be back. That was the message Wednesday from a lawyer for alleged police misconduct victims who was rebuffed in his effo...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that federal prisoners whose sentences are reduced by appeals co...

Leonard S. Janofsky, founding partner of Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, died at his home of a heart attack ...

A judge has ordered two warring plaintiffs attorneys to call a truce and consolidate their cases and asked them to stop bicker...

Cold War-style treachery is trying to make a comeback in Los Angeles, the city of dreams built on betrayal as an art form. In ...

SACRAMENTO - Backers of a juvenile justice ballot initiative are threatening to sue radio stations across the state if they do...

Permitting recreational use may result in landowner liability for significant personal injury or property damages. ...

Los Angeles County caused its employees who invest in a 401(k) plan to lose money when it sold, then repurchased shares of sto...

The factual differences between 'Landgate' and 'Ali' may provide guidance for government lawyers.

RIVERSIDE - Martin H. Swanson and Paul E. Zellerbach have headed in the same direction in life, but they took different routes...

Jurors reporting for duty in the Los Angeles Superior Court's North Valley District only have to serve for one day or one tria...

Applied Materials buys Etec Systems for $1.8 billion. ...