Conservative groups in Washington are trying to move the debate about nominee Sonia Sotomayor away from her compelling life st...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced four new Superior Court judge appointments Tuesday in Orange, Shasta and Tulare counties....

In a victory for California state officials, the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday reversed a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rulin...

As more foster children are able to navigate the courts, the more quickly their lives will stabilize, write Kristi Pfister and...

Recent decisions by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board have been criticized as eschewing the traditional "fraud" analysis, w...

Disabled patients and unionized health care workers took steps Tuesday to prevent more than $78 million in budget cuts slated ...

The Class Action Fairness Act sets out a framework for federal courts to use when analyzing fee applications in coupon settlem...

For Hispanic activists, President Barack Obama's decision Tuesday to nominate Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court was th...

The battle over same-sex marriage Tuesday shifted back from the court to the ballot box as the gay, lesbian, bisexual and tran...

As in every civil rights movement, there is progress and there are setbacks. Prop. 8 is but a roadblock in the path to equalit...

Nicholas S. Thompson, an Orange County judge and U.S. Army reserve officer, has spent his career serving both the public and h...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

President Barack Obama has picked 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his first U.S. Supreme Court nomi...

Attorneys around the Bay Area have been volunteering their time to make school districts fix often-dangerous problems in and o...

When officials in scandal-plagued San Bernardino County wanted answers about suspicions of embarrassing misconduct, they turne...

Insurers bear a heavy burden in their attempt to overcome the weight given to a California insured's choice of forum, write Li...

When you're Candace Carroll, vetting candidates for coveted seats on the District Court and the job of U.S. attorney, everyone...

A judge has postponed the second phase of the Barbie vs. Bratz doll fight to give the parties a chance to try to settle the lo...

In its most highly anticipated case of the year, the California Supreme Court announced that it will publish its ruling on a c...

Columnist Martin Berg urges prosecutors to reconsider their opposition to letting a terminally ill prison inmate die at home. ...

The Orange County district attorney's office could be forced to lay off four experienced prosecutors and 30 other staff as the...

The Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law is balancing a seesaw of decreasing funds with an exponentially growing clientele. ...

Conservatives' outrage over the word empathy may be out of ignorance, or it also could be an intentional and manipulative obfu...

Recently many states in the U.S. have discovered what a boon it can be to have films shot in their jurisdiction, write E. Barr...

The legality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a hybrid between a nonprofit and a government agency, is being ...

Assistant Attorney General Tony West taps Santa Clara Counsel Ann Ravel and two former MoFo colleagues for leadership posts in...

One day after President Barack Obama spoke about balancing transparency and national security, a federal judge threatened to s...

The California Supreme Court upheld a state ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday by a 6-1 vote, but refused to annul the 18,000...

The backlog of cases in the Riverside County court has made Judge Edward D. Webster look forward to his planned retirement at ...

Bench officers who participate in the state's assigned judges program are being asked to voluntarily waive compensation for at...