LOS ANGELES - Very soon, the Los Angeles Superior Court will have a permanent homeless court at a new facility in Los Angeles,...

LOS ANGELES - A low-level drug defendant with a prior "serious or violent crime" on his record must have been out of prison fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state law aimed at curbing unsolicited e-mail advertising messages, or spam, survived a constitutional chall...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles police officer was justified in shooting an actor he killed at a Benedict Canyon Halloween party, ...

LOS ANGELES - High-speed freight trains will rumble through the Alameda Corridor on Friday. The first public-private enterpris...

SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Richard McAdams lacks the jaded mien of someone who's been in the same job for...

Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - Few lay people know what happens at a deposition. The following guidelines can help you exp...

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Virtually every attorney is familiar with fee arbitrations. But most lawyers don't kn...

Focus Column - By Lynne Bassis - Have you or your family ever added on to your home? If so, then you know that add-ons, if don...

LOS ANGELES - A much-touted multiagency program, meant to set a national example on how to deal with repeat criminal undocumen...

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Thomas L. Morris, an African-American postal worker who worked at the anthrax-exposed B...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Employment cases involve commonly recurring motions in limine. Anticipating these motio...

OAKLAND - Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney didn't die when a bomb detonated in their car, their lawyer told a federal jury Tuesday...

LOS ANGELES - On Jan. 14, Judge Charles D. Sheldon was instructing a jury hearing a criminal matter in his courtroom when the ...

SAN DIEGO - Nine weeks ago, City Attorney Casey Gwinn and Police Chief David Bejarano knew how they wanted to combat domestic ...

LOS ANGELES - A U.S. District judge in Oakland has ruled that an Arizona lawyer who also is admitted to practice in California...

SAN JOSE - A teen-ager who is in a virtual vegetative state after hanging himself in Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall will rec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Marjorie Knoller, convicted of second-degree murder last month in the dog-mauling death of Diane Whip...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to allow prison officials to take DNA samples from inmates by force appears likely to pass a key commi...

Column by Garry Abrams - One can only guess at how much anger and bitterness may flow from the decision not to retain Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities have arrested a Redondo Beach dental assistant for allegedly sending threatening letters to ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court judges have elected Deputy District Attorney Diana Summerhayes to the bench as a comm...

LOS ANGELES - The downtown Metropolitan Courthouse and Central Civil West Courthouse have joined 32 others around the county t...

LOS ANGELES - The Board of Police Commissioners voted Tuesday not to reappoint police Chief Bernard Parks to a second five-yea...

LOS ANGELES - A man who claims he was wrongly convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of a woman is not entitled to a DNA test b...

SAN JOSE - Implementing a policy modeled after a law passed last year by the state Legislature, Santa Clara County plans to re...

SACRAMENTO - State lawmakers trying to create new tort law to address gender-motivated violence moved two bills forward in the...

Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Most lawyers understand that judicial arbitration is a statutory, court-administered proc...

Forum Column - By Jennifer C. Pizer - The infamous Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court recently proclaimed th...

Forum Column - By Gary J. Malone - News reports portray the Enron scandal as a series of complex transactions that are so impe...