A trial judge has turned back a demand to halt a large housing development in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta until planners ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo Bank will pay $10 million to settle a class action for allegedly engaging in "bait and switch" tac...

On the Move

Judge Timothy Fall's devotion to detail keeps things running smoothly in his courtroom and serves him when he substitutes at h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hiring in the legal industry will remain strong in 2007. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Emotions were running high in March as attorneys sat down with mediator Lawrence Irving, a retired federal jud...

For a second time in less than a week, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego are asking a federal bankruptcy jud...

A verdict was delayed Thursday in a multimillion-dollar case pitting the creators of "Will & Grace" against NBC Studios be...

LOS ANGELES - Another co-conspirator in the murder-and-kidnapping plot targeting Russian immigrants that put two men on death ...

LOS ANGELES - Competent and compelling expert witnesses are critical to the outcomes of cases from the straightforward to the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge was chastised Thursday for abusing his judicial power by threatening...

Forum Column - By Karen Mathis – Given our nation’s embattled history over gun regulation and over the rights of the mentally ...

An appellate court Thursday rebuked San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Chuck Haines for ignoring its earlier order to s...

Employment Column - By Brad Grabske - Drivers who use cell phones or PDAs increase their risk of accidents 400 times. And thei...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to reduce prison overcrowding was rushed through the California Legislature Thursday with little publi...

LOS ANGELES - An Oxnard police officer did not violate an injured farmworker's rights by interrogating him in an ambulance and...

When soldiers come back from war with pyschological damage, it's not surprising that some of them get in trouble with the law....

RIVERSIDE - Three months ago, Riverside Superior Court Judge Gary B. Tranbarger slammed District Attorney Rod Pacheco in an op...

The law can order a Newport Beach woman to stop lying about her neighbor without violating her free-speech rights, a divided C...

LOS ANGELES - Despite widespread assertions that private shareholder litigation is declining, a study released Thursday conclu...

Focus Column – By Robin J. Samuel and Laura M. Wilson – Employers who fail to heed the state Supreme Court’s new proclamation ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As aid agencies scramble to get food and medicine to millions of refugees from war-torn countries worldwide, a...

At the tender age of 34, Melinda Johnson was the first woman appointed to the bench in Ventura County.

Law firms can be disqualified from lawsuits for having unfair inside knowledge about the enemy. ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Steven R. Van Sicklen never imagined he’d find his perfect job supervising the crimina...

Rock Harmon, senior Alameda County deputy district attorney, is trying to sell prosecutors across the state on a DNA search te...

Citing "an egregious and persistent pattern of misconduct," the state's judicial-discipline panel booted Monterey County Super...

LOS ANGELES - When the Harriet Buhai Family Law Center opened in South Central Los Angeles in 1982, few in the public-interest...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran firefighter Lewis Bressler said that, after 35 years on the job, he was forced into retirement after he ...

Because of a complicated web of jurisdictional issues and an attitude of indifference from state and federal law enforcement, ...