LOS ANGELES - Low-income residents of a Los Angeles city-run housing project can sue the city for not evicting other project t...

LOS ANGELES - Imposing a parole-revocation fine enacted two years after a defendant committed the underlying offenses is uncon...

LOS ANGELES - A New York scalper who tried to sell nontransferable tickets to the 1998 Academy Awards will get a jury trial, a...

SAN DIEGO - Motion to Strike, a team which included Superior Court Judge Adrienne Orfield, defeated The Crim Reapers earlier t...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors are appealing an Orange County judge's refusal to reinstate felony charges against a potential third-s...

SAN DIEGO - A financial adviser who insists he is innocent was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for bludgeoning his educato...

LOS ANGELES - With statistics for nearly all of 2000 available, the Los Angeles Police Department reported a nearly 25-percent...

WASHINGTON - The postelection legal drama that polarized and pulverized Americans for much of the last six weeks is fading fro...

LOS ANGELES - Hinting that it may review the type of ammunition it allows the Los Angeles Police Department to fire at demonst...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four companies, including what was once the nation's largest maker of the pesticide DDT, have agreed to pay $...

LOS ANGELES - Just two weeks before Los Angeles County officials recommended a $4 million settlement for 4-year-old Oei Mae, w...

LOS ANGELES - Criminal defendants are requesting officer personnel records in dramatically increasing numbers, the Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - Worried that the state's trial courts are unprepared to handle a flood of drug offenders entitled to treatmen...

SAN FRANCISCO - The daytime song of the Yosemite toad, once a distinctive part of the music of the Sierra Nevada, has gradual...

LOS ANGELES - In 1999, Gov. Gray Davis established a plan intended to expand eligibility in public high schools that increasin...

As we all know, the role of receptionist in a law firm is vital. A receptionist with good communication and people skills crea...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Diego federal judicial district received no new judges in 1999, "yet it continued to lead the nation w...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Dec. 28 for James M. Shields, retired managing attorney for CNA. Shields died Dec. 3 in...

Apparently fearing further limitations on Congress' legislative reach, supporters of Vice President Al Gore have criticized Ge...

LOS ANGELES - A developer who planned to make an "entertainment destination center" at the Hollywood Galaxy theater complex ha...

SAN JOSE - Attorneys for defendants in the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case tried for a third time Monday to persuade a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Youth advocates filed suit here Monday seeking to improve conditions in overcrowded youth shelters across the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Public Defender cannot be held in contempt for failing to turn over completed juror questi...

LOS ANGELES - An oil company's suit against a consumer group that attempted to enforce public interest rights under Propositio...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Melvyn B. Fliegel, Century City attorney and former partner at Alschuler Grossman ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday refused to remove one of the defense lawyers for former Symbionese ...

LOS ANGELES - The Immigration and Naturalization Service has been called a lot of things, but Santa Claus isn't one of them. T...

SAN FRANCISCO - A public defender whose professional negligence sends an innocent person to jail is not immune from malpracti...

LOS ANGELES - Who's afraid of People v. Mooc? The Los Angeles Police Department. The obscure Orange County criminal case is a ...

WASHINGTON - If President George W. Bush gets a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, he probably won't be able to fulfil...