Following through on his pledge to sign the consent decree if the Los Angeles City Council passed it, Mayor Richard Riordan ap...

Citing witness intimidation by a corrupt immigration agent, a federal judge has ordered a new trial for a man convicted in an ...

While implementation of a consent decree placing the Los Angeles Police Department under the eyes of a federal monitor could c...

Lawyers for four Los Angeles Police Department officers on trial in the Rampart scandal probably will rest their case today. O...

The most important political question you can ask yourself on election day is simply this: Do you want smaller government? Do ...

Lawyers spend so much time with time, maybe we should do something about the time spent hanging around the courts. ...

After winning a $10.5 million verdict in September, plaintiff Abel Vargas should be happy, right? Think again. The 39-year-old...

As the debate rages over Proposition 38, the school-choice voucher initiative in California, supporters of educational choice ...

Former pro baseball MVP Steve Garvey and other marketers of questionable diet supplements, which among other claims professed ...

Effective Jan. 1, 1992, the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act (Welfare & Institutions Code Section 1560...

The nation's "War on Drugs" has been a monumental failure. Since the Nixon administration successfully implemented a treatment...

Stephen F. Rohde, president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, will speak at an open forum at South...

Edward Y. Kakita hasn't had much time for retirement. On May 8, he celebrated his 60th birthday and retired from the Los Angel...

Patrick Lynch, of O'Melveny & Myers' Los Angeles office, won a $1 million punitive damages award in a case involving unlaw...

Growing up in the midst of the counterculture revolution shaped the world view of Robert S. Arns, who says he became a plainti...

SAN JOSE - In an election year that has favored female candidates, two men who want to become Santa Clara County judges face u...

In short, retroactive application of 'Cedars-Sinai' means spoliation will now be dealt with as a discovery matter only. ...

Arbitration and mediation activity have helped resolve countless disputes involving construction projects. These same skills c...

The corporate lawyers at MGM were sleeping with the enemy Wednesday in Santa Monica. Entertainment litigator Larry Stein of Al...

In the past, every party in the chain of distribution of an allegedly defective product was jointly and severally liable to th...

Although California's False Claims Act (Gov't. Code Sections 12650 et. seq.) was enacted 13 years ago, there is but one appell...

The initiative process eviscerates representative government. ...

SANTA ANA - A controversial mailer sent out by a candidate for judicial office in Orange County who is a state appellate court...

SANTA ANA - A state appellate court has overturned the conviction of former Orange County Assistant Treasurer Matthew R. Raabe...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs rejected the Los Angeles Police Department officers union's request to stop th...

WASHINGTON - The federal government over the last fiscal year collected $1.5 billion in civil fraud settlements and judgments,...

DENVER - A trend in taking issues directly to the voters through ballot initiatives has grown in the past decade and may well ...

A dental corporation based in El Segundo was not content to just grin and bear it when the badmouthing began on a Yahoo! messa...

A Los Angeles police officer on trial in the Rampart scandal testified Thursday that he never saw a gun in the hand of a gangs...

SEATTLE - A Washington state Supreme Court candidate who 12 years ago referred to Hispanic defendants as "wetbacks" is being a...