Negotiations between Gov. Gray Davis and California Indian tribes over the regulation of Indian casinos are heating up, if th...

With the advent of companies like E*trade and Charles Schwab online, even an unsophisticated investor can buy and sell shares...

In a ruling that may quell a controversy that pitted state court against religious law, a Beverly Hills Municipal Court judge...

SAN JOSE - Two class action attorneys who specialize in shareholder lawsuits scored a major victory last week in their bitter...

SAN DIEGO - Jury selection is scheduled to begin here today in a trial that has aroused widespread interest in Great Britain ...

The estate of a man who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies has filed a $2 million claim against Los Angeles County. The c...

Joe Ball listened with growing impatience as an appellate attorney struggled to convince the state's highest court that a con...

SANTA ROSA - Like many of his colleagues representing indigent clients, Louis Haffner staunchly defends the rights of the acc...

A notorious, long-running Hollywood legal feud between two tough guy actors who probably would have felt more at ease on moto...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask announced Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed against...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino's Board of Supervisors have decided not to approve a $5 million state Board of Corrections gra...

San Francisco Superior Court Judge James J. McBride was arraigned Thursday morning by a visiting judge in Domestic Violence C...

SAN JOSE - The authors of a report outlining new rules to protect famous trademarks in the online world ducked a lot of contr...

RIVERSIDE - After nearly five years of litigation, relatives of the woman at the center of the so-called Riverside mystery fu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Since 1996, the Dow Jones industrial average has climbed by an impressive 55 percent to reach its recent 10,0...

SAN DIEGO - The case against two servicemen accused of beating to death an Ecuadorian hotel clerk came to a close Thursday wh...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office Thursday all but dismissed a recommendation by the U.S. Commission on Civil...

The California Supreme Court strongly hinted Thursday that it will grant the news media and the public a right to gain access...

A judge has ruled that a Los Angeles police officer critically wounded in the North Hollywood shootout cannot sue the makers ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down government regulations that gave officials virtual veto power over the wide d...

Peter Digre, the controversial director of the Department of Children and Family Services, has resigned the post he has held ...

A Malibu attorney has been indicted on federal charges that he participated in an insurance fraud scheme with doctors who per...

An attorney described by prosecutors as "a driving time bomb" pleaded no contest Thursday to felony assault, evading police a...

A UCLA law school graduate pleaded no contest Wednesday to doctoring his transcripts to get hired at a law firm, becoming the...

Shortly after the House Judiciary Committee passed The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999 (H.R. 833), the full House passed the bi...

SACRAMENTO - If you're wondering what will come of Gov. Gray Davis' effort to mediate the Proposition 187 court battle, just ...

The German chemical firm Hoechst AG has agreed to pay a $36 million fine and plead guilty to a 17-year conspiracy to fix the ...

An Orange County judge is being investigated for repeatedly making "undignified" comments on the bench - including singing "w...

An attorney trying to attack an injunction against racially derogatory words in the workplace ran into a buzzsaw Wednesday at...

Los Angeles civil rights lawyers and police abuse plaintiffs' counsel Wednesday praised a reported recommendation by the U.S....