The group of Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries is seeking a deadline extension as it was unable to collect valid signatures by Monday. It has challenged the city pot ordinance that would cap the number of stores at 70, but will exempt those that got registered with the city in 2007.

The ever sensitive issue of marijuana legalization has once again come to light, with advocates of medical marijuana, along with the Venice Beach Care Center and Pure Life Alternative Wellness Center, filing a lawsuit against Los Angeles, stressing that the city's new ordinance, which is yet to take effect, is "too restrictive and violates state law".

The ante in the legal battle over Los Angeles' pot dispensaries escalated when Medical marijuana advocates sued the city on Tuesday, stating that the "recently adopted ordinance is so restrictive it will cause even law-abiding businesses to shut down". The law caps the number of dispensaries in Los Angeles at 70.

The ante in the legal battle over Los Angeles' pot dispensaries escalated when Medical marijuana advocates sued the city on Tuesday, stating that the "recently adopted ordinance is so restrictive it will cause even law-abiding businesses to shut down". The law caps the number of dispensaries in Los Angeles at 70.

The bankrupt owner of over 200 American malls from Boston to Los Angeles, General Growth Properties Inc., is aiming at confirming a reorganization plan by October 05, after taking as much as 60 days to consider proposals that tend to compete with one from Brookfield Asset Management Inc.

On Tuesday, the last of the country's major financial credit agencies undertook the development of lowering Los Angeles' bond rating, which will now most likely cost the city over a million dollars more whenever it looks to borrow in future.

In a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against Anthem Blue Cross over a liver transplant, trial has begun.

Oscar-winner Sean Penn, 49, was charged with two transgressions with a photographer, last year. He could be sent to prison, if somehow, found guilty, Los Angeles prosecutors said on Friday. Last October, at an upscale shopping center in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, he allegedly kicked a photographer in the leg and broke his camera.

Dr. Conrad Murray plans to surrender to authorities Friday, his lawyers said, regardless of whether or not the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charges him in connection with the death of music legend Michael Jackson.

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously decided to adopt a comprehensive medical marijuana ordinance that clamps strict controls on dispensaries, which have spread with a velocity that stunned city officials and infuriated few residents.