LOS ANGELES - Should consumers be able to decide which credit bureaus can release their credit reports? ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Web-based business owner Chris Rempel was canvassing the Internet in search of marketing avenues for a technol...

SAN FRANCISCO - A court-appointed investigator who monitored excessive use of force, inadequate discipline policies and a perv...

Swanky Pebble Beach, the famous golf course and resort, can't sue the owner of an English bed and breakfast who gave his seasi...

Focus Column - In the first six months of this year, the courts issued 18 published opinions arising from the California anti-...

Before his Watergate fame, Attorney General John Mitchell reassured civil rights critics of President Nixon's perceived rhetor...

LOS ANGELES - When the Enron verdict came down in May, Juliet Huck's phone started ringing off the hook.

LOS ANGELES - Businesses can't buy movies, edit out the potentially offensive parts and resell them, a federal court has ruled.

Sometimes when warring parties reach settlements, it's difficult to tell whether any practical effects will result.

Forum Column - Ehern Watada is a soldier who doesn't want to fight in Iraq.

LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers for Merck & Co. challenged a marketing expert's testimony that the company's sales campaign ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lead: the bullet that keeps on killing. That's the thrust of objections being raised by a coalition of enviro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Singer and activist Joan Baez will perform Monday evening at an anniversary dinner and fundraiser for a lawyer...

Forum Column - The death of two people in a Florida detention center last month was an avoidable tragedy. The result of govern...

LOS ANGELES - A decorated former Marine and his biological daughter were wrongfully separated for a decade due to lies and neg...

Forum Column - For a judiciary seeking to limit the scope of private party constitutional litigation, the most straightforward...

LOS ANGELES - When Michael Schill was contemplating whether to take the deanship at the UCLA School of Law more than two years...

LOS ANGELES-For the second time in six months, a federal judge has imposed sanctions on Los Angeles city officials for violati...

SAN FRANCISCO - Strip-search class actions targeting jailers in California and around the nation gained momentum Tuesday as Sa...

Letter to the Editor - The long-awaited May 31 Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 64 and pending cases has come and gone. Ba...

LOS ANGELES - Affordable housing advocates, working to convince city officials to slow the tide of condo conversions sweeping ...

When you live with a criminal suspect whose computer is the target of a search warrant, e-mail messages on your personal compu...

Focus Column - In the Estate of Saueressig (June 22, 2006), the state Supreme Court reversed the 2nd District Court of ...

LOS ANGELES - The trench-coat-wearing protagonist of the video game "Postal 2" spends his day buying milk, confessing his sins...

SAN FRANCISCO - For most working professionals with families, giving ample time to both is a balancing act. For Jesse L. Mille...

Focus Column - The characterization of a child support obligor's interest in company stock has major ramifications on how a co...

LOS ANGELES - This week, thousands of nurses across the nation will take to the streets to argue that they are not supervisors.

Forum Column - Its been almost a year since the Office of Administrative Hearing has assumed the role of adjudicating administ...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's debate over same-sex marriage took its next historic turn Monday as a state appellate court seeme...