SACRAMENTO - As a gubernatorial campaign issue, judicial appointments barely registers. The subject isn't blessed with the vi...
Finding no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the conviction of a lawyer who conspired to murder a business associate, a...
SANTA ANA - Orange County judges will find out Friday whether or not they will be getting additional money from the Judicial ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal prosecutor who successfully handled the financial fraud case against former Arizona Gov. John Fif...
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and soccer promoters have sued the company that manages the Coliseum, claiming t...
Electronic media -- and how it relates to the law -- is an inescapable issue in the legal profession. "The question of develop...
Public Interest
Teen Program Seeks to End Cycle of Domestic Violence
By Anne La Jeunesse
The judge grilled "Robert," asking the teen-ager why he had shoved his girlfriend from his car onto a residential street, then...
Judges and Judiciary
In Unusual Move, Justices Will Hold Hearing on Bar Discipline
By Don De Benedictis
The state Supreme Court will hold an unusual, afternoon-long public hearing next month on whether and how it might step in to ...
WASHINGTON - In an action likely to cause widespread confusion and debate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided not to review ...
SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties announced Tuesday that it has set up a stat...
As he earlier said he would do, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Tuesday ordered nine Indian tribes to shut down their ca...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday defended his beleaguered family support division in the wake of a h...
DENVER - Kevin Williams' fate was sealed the day his feet left the wooden swimming platform floating atop a chilly South Caro...
APPLE VALLEY - You might not think that a High Desert community with a distinctly rural atmosphere would have problems dealing...
In pushing for the enactment of a one-day, one-trial jury service system in Los Angeles County under a new state law, District...
A medical marijuana activist, AIDS patient and defendant of federal drug charges sued California Attorney General Dan Lungren...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has overturned a controversial extradition order for three escaped Irish Republican A...
In response to growing criticism from child advocates and the media, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court is...
Judges and Judiciary
Ground Broken for Federal Courthouse
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Ground Broken For Federal Court RIVERSIDE - Already home to more than half a dozen courts, Riverside will soon add a U.S. Dist...
Government
Airport Conversion Foes Sue O.C. Seeking Return of Legal Fees
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - A coalition that opposes a planned airport at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station has sued Orange County, allegi...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a win for Oakland's trailblazing legal effort to curtail prostitution and drug sales by seizing customers'...
WASHINGTON - With time running out on the congressional session and all eyes focused on impeachment, Congress has passed seve...
In what apparently is the first high-tech consumer fraud case of its kind in the nation, prosecutors announced Thursday they ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Man Sues DMV to Avoid the 'Mark of the Beast'
By Denise Levin
A sheriff's reserve lieutenant has filed suit against the Department of Motor Vehicles on religious grounds, claiming the age...
Judges and Judiciary
After 41 Months of Suspense, Fletcher Gets 9th Circuit Post
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A 41-month wait ended Thursday for Boalt Hall professor William Fletcher, when the Senate voted 57-41 to confirm...
Criminal
Charges of Dirty Tricks Fly in Investigation of Landfill Project
By Mathew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - The allegations seem like something out of an industrial espionage thriller, complete with stolen computer d...
Appellate Practice
Rehearing Set After Defendant Serves 16 Years
By Anna Marie Stolley
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a defense lawyer's preparation for a murder trial - a cursory revie...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for thousands of union workers at the Albertson's grocery chain, a federal appeals court ruled T...
RIVERSIDE - Housing facilities for juvenile detainees in Riverside County - already severely overburdened - were dealt a furt...
A judge on Friday refused to throw out the bulk of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former partner of the entertainment la...