Columnist Martin Berg checks into the courtroom battle between BofA and AIG and asks: Who's got OUR backs? ...

The Obama administration is finally taking on the extensive and infamous civil rights problems at the Agriculture Department, ...

Cliff Sloan and David McKean bring to life one of the most important cases in American history in their book "The Great Decisi...

Purchasing carbon offsets has become yet another vehicle for the kind of rapacious speculators who brought our economy to its ...

The seven Los Angeles members of Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, pleaded guilty to supporting a terrorist group just before the eig...

The 9th Circuit's rejection Tuesday of the federal government's state secrets argument should bolster plaintiffs in a related ...

Democratic lawmakers continued their campaign to roll back binding mandatory arbitration Wednesday by introducing legislation ...

Clearly troubled by the burden placed on states covered by a restrictive provision of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Anthony M...

When Commissioner Catherine A.S. Lyons finds herself getting frustrated with the hectic and often heart-wrenching juvenile dep...

A new bill passed by the state Senate could represent the start of a new era for highway construction in California, write Nan...

In an unexpected turn of events, the owners of the now-defunct logging giant Pacific Lumber have agreed to pay $4 million to s...

After an unprecedented restructuring of law firm ranks in recent months, hundreds of bright young attorneys have been left to ...

An accomplished pianist, San Diego Judge Yuri Hofmann learned to play at age 6 from his opera singer mother. But a fascination...

Sen. Arlen Specter's surprise decision to switch to the Democratic Party Tuesday promises to shake up the powerful Senate Judi...

District courts are likely to play a more prominent role implementing new rules on design patent cases, write Daniel Wu and Mi...

The struggle over autism treatments proves that regulators are the critical link between promises of coverage and the reality ...

Though Pom Wonderful has had success suing other juice makers over advertising claims, its latest suit might go too far, write...

Some fleeting expletives were likely uttered in network TV boardrooms Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Feder...

Litigants who sue foreign defendants must pay close attention to the Hague Convention, write H. James Wulfsberg and Richard El...

A federal judge officially gave ownership of the popular toy line to the El Segundo company and put MGA Entertainment, which h...

There is no basis to treat people differently under the law once a marriage is over, writes Fred Silberberg. ...

The former Orange County Sheriff was sentenced to 5 1/2 years behind bars, but whether he can remain free until his appeals ar...

With the nation still reeling from the recent turmoil in the economy, the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with the questio...

The 9th Circuit rejected on Tuesday the Obama administration's state secrets privilege claim and let five terror suspects sue ...

The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday modifying criminal statutes and authorizing $490 million to hire additional p...

Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, a once rising political star who was brought down by charges of corruption, was sent...

Sandeep Baweja admitted squandering nearly all of $2.7 million from a class action settlement. ...

Qualcommm announded late Sunday it would pay $891 million to its nemesis Broadcom, ending a patent brouhaha that spanned court...

Three immigration lawyers and two translators, all from the same firm, are in trial in Sacramento on charges of filing dozens ...

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. scored big Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a federal judge's decision that invalid...