The only reason Cory Stephens, then 33, poor and struggling to stay in college, testified against two men who raped her on a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento postal worker was left suicidal, unable to work and so psychologically scarred from "egregious s...

SACRAMENTO - After years of tinkering with California's troubled child support collection system, frustrated legislators now ...

SAN BERNARDINO - After an eight-hour deliberation over two days, a San Bernardino jury awarded a Redlands woman more than $4....

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether attorneys who withdraw or are disqualified from a case may t...

In what some were calling an unprecedented act Friday, the Los Angeles Office of County Counsel asked a Juvenile Court bench ...

WASHINGTON - On a historic and fittingly dreary afternoon in the nation's capital, Republican congressmen acting as prosecuto...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland jurors hid their pro-gun biases and one woman - described by fellow panelists as "Pistol Packin' Momm...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Gray Davis administration this week withdrew support for the agribusiness position in a major Central Val...

Los Angeles County's top appointed official Thursday predicted that there will be status quo budgets in fiscal 1999-2000 for ...

Ryan Jyun Nakagawa, chief ethics officer of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency, died Monday of complications ...

For California jurors, there may be no free lunch, but a Ventura County judge has managed to make the service a little more p...

Los Angeles' Munger, Tolles & Olson has tapped Ruth E. Fisher and Robert K. Johnson as co-managing partners of the 130-la...

Maimed and bloodied by attacks from the legislative right last year, the State Bar of California this year will have to keep ...

SACRAMENTO - The discipline charges faced by Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline of San Francisco inflamed a controversy that ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a case against the nation's largest health maintenance organization - ...

SACRAMENTO - Signaling a new direction for the state Department of Justice, Attorney General Bill Lockyer plans to double the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carving out a sweeping religious exception to antidiscrimination laws, a bitterly divided federal appeals cou...

WASHINGTON - The California law limiting welfare benefits for newcomers during their first year of residency to the amount th...

SANTA BARBARA - When Gov. Pete Wilson cut funding to the California Bar Association last year, he effectively shut off a free...

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner denied class certification to a lawsuit against Kaiser brought by a man who claims ...

Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a budget adjustment for his office ...

A 9-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of his 11-year-old brother, apparently be...

A discovery referee slapped attorneys at Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, who are representing Disneyland in a person...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher can be sued for breach of fiduciary duty by a man who claims the law firm passed personal informa...

WASHINGTON - There is another important trial under way in Washington, and it reached a pivotal point Wednesday when, after 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for a Bay Area woman who caught her son downloading smut Internet images from the Livermore library...

Following accusations that the head of the county Department of Children and Family Services may have used his office to atte...

Los Angeles and San Francisco have moved a step closer to filing tort suits against the gun industry. L.A. City Attorney Jame...

Some of the country's best known retailers, including the Gap, J. Crew, Nordstrom and Wal-Mart, were accused in lawsuits file...