An appellate court's decision in an insurance coverage case has left both sides pleased with the result. The ruling affirms th...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a separation of church and church case involving feuding Methodists in San Francisco, a state appellate cou...

The word of God can be copyrighted here on earth - and greatly restricted in its availability. So sayeth the 9th U.S. Circuit ...

Michael Woo can run for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council one more time - even two more times - according to a decision h...

SANTA ANA - Antoinette Yancey's best chance at freedom from a life sentence behind bars may be the prosecutors whose arguments...

My son and I went back to school together this year for the first time. He just turned 10, and is beginning the fifth grade. I...

A new law addresses no-contest clauses and contracts to provide for a beneficiary. ...

Three Southwestern University School of Law professors have been named to the following endowed professorships for 2000-2001, ...

At a recent Internet-law symposium, I asked attendees - primarily Web site operators - to describe for me their understanding ...

Imagine that your spouse leaves you with three children. You struggle without any child support and, two years later, the chil...

SANTA ANA - The debate over the use of youngsters as undercover police informants is intensifying in the wake of a judge's fin...

WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference of the United States voted Tuesday to oppose pending legislation that would prevent feder...

Amy Goldman had just gone through a divorce and was raising two young children in the early 1980s when she decided to become a...

It took a while, but U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy shook hands with every guest who waited in line during last we...

WASHINGTON - Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general for antitrust who led the government's effort to break up Microsoft Co...

A lawyer for several alleged Rampart police scandal victims offered Tuesday to drop his claim for triple damages under the fed...

Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney David Marcus - the No. 3 lawyer in the 420-attorney U.S. attorney central district office - ...

SAN DIEGO -- A state appellate court Tuesday issued a temporary stay to proceedings against a 15-year-old charged with hate cr...

Ex-gangbanger turned peacemaker Alex Sanchez may soon be freed from an immigration jail, after a Los Angeles judge Tuesday thr...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than two dozen state contracts providing water to agriculture and urban areas, including Los Angeles, are...

SAN DIEGO - A well-known San Diego criminal defense lawyer faces money-laundering charges in Phoenix stemming from his alleged...

Even with our increasing reliance on computers, attorneys still rely heavily on dictating to draft documents. ...

By James Shankles. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the North American Man/Boy Love Association and its Web ...

Some of the judicial forms are politically correct, like the family law confidential counseling form. ...

Agencies have attempted to compensate for legislative inaction by promulgating their own comprehensive restrictions on tobacco...

After failing to convince the state Legislature to approve their bill attacking protective orders in civil litigation, Califor...

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim woman has filed suit against the University of California regents, the latest person to allege that UC ...

Commercial litigator Steven M. Goldberg, formerly a partner in the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, has retu...

SAN DIEGO - The new president of the California Judges Association asked lawyers and the State Bar to take action against reca...

SANTA ANA - Orange County voters will decide on an initiative that calls for a shutdown on new residential development in San ...