Two charges of misdemeanor manslaughter will be filed against a Westside attorney whose 1995 Mercedes Benz killed two elderly ...
Entertainment & Sports
Court Dismisses Soccer Coach's Claim Player's Dad Libeled Him
By Daniel Evans
A state appellate court slide-tackled a Loyola Marymount University soccer coach, dismissing his claim that he was libeled whe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has fined a ship-salvage company $50,000 and temporarily barred its use of one of the largest ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 1 1/2 years after a controversial ruling barred the use of a form of DNA testing in five San Francisco ...
After-hours callers to Marshall L. Bitkower's Encino law offices get a recording that begins with the theme from "Dragnet," fo...
With President Clinton's signing late Tuesday of the "high-tech visa bill," Lindi Light will be able to leave her job in West ...
A former member of one of Los Angeles' most notorious street gangs testified Wednesday in the corruption trial of four police ...
The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates recently honored five law school graduates for their academic...
Long-term health care providers charge that regulations offer no chance for meaningful review of governmental action. ...
Lawsuits brought to stop online "music swapping" and "movie swapping," as swappers call it, or "piracy," as the recording and ...
The 16th annual Red Boudreau Dinner on Saturday night at the Hyatt Regency Hotel will honor plaintiff's lawyer Mike Thorsnes o...
Though required by custom and decorum to remain seated at work, Presiding Justices Joan Dempsey Klein and Vaino Spencer have d...
The city controller drew fire from the City Council on Tuesday for continuing to question billings related to a small portion ...
Richard W. Sprague, longtime attorney and member of the board of directors of the Braille Institute of America, died Thursday ...
The California Judicial Council's Center for Families, Children & the Courts plans to devote its annual academic journal, ...
An advisory panel to the Los Angeles Police Department's civilian oversight board is considering whether the department should...
Administrative/Regulatory
Measure's Language Spurs Fight Between Activists, Santa Monica
By Ed Kimble
The court has given Santa Monica consumer activists the last word on what voters will read about in an initiative to prevent c...
Witnesses who took the stand Tuesday in the third day of testimony in the Los Angeles police corruption trial seemed to be def...
A decade after the federal and state governments sued Montrose Corp. and three other corporations for depositing 100 tons or m...
Attorney and former Florida child welfare official Anita Bock, hired by Los Angeles County less than a year ago to revive the ...
Constitutional Law
Supreme Court Appointees Have a Tendency to Surprise
By Contributing Writer
Charles Levendosky's opinion piece has it backwards. "A Scalia-Thomas Court Would Hurl the Nation Backwards," Forum, Oct. 6. A...
What does one do when a $15,000 box of cigars gets engulfed in small, inhaled flames? ...
The city of Los Angeles has an opportunity to fundamentally change the culture of the Los Angeles Police Department from one t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge, accused of "malingering" by a judicial watchdog agency, said Monday that h...
SAN FRANCISCO - Five copyright suits against Napster Inc., scattered around the country, landed Monday in the lap of U.S. Dist...
SAN FRANCISCO - At the end of a meeting dedicated to planning, the State Bar Board of Governors decided unanimously Saturday t...
A federal judge plans to bar the city of Los Angeles from implementing a ban on "For Sale" signs in vehicles parked on city st...
A Los Angeles police officer testified Monday during the first trial to emerge from the Rampart corruption scandal that he doe...
Services have taken place for Gordon T. Stulberg, former president of Polygram Corp. and 20th Century Fox Films and a past par...
A state appellate court has pruned a $280,000 jury award to a Redondo Beach kindergarten, ruling that the owners of the school...