A divided California Supreme Court clarified Thursday that passengers in vehicles pulled over in traffic stops are not automat...

SAN FRANCISCO - A private Bay Area Catholic high school with the stated purpose of educating underprivileged students will pay...

LOS ANGELES - A jury has awarded a 71-year-old terminally ill man $12.6 million for pain and suffering related to asbestos exp...

LOS ANGELES - Seong H. Kim, a partner at Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, said Thursday he is leaving th...

Now immigrant rights groups in California plan to launch a massive citizenship drive aimed at strengthening an already-influen...

Not passing the bar exam is no excuse for not repaying student loan debt, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. ...

WASHINGTON - Thursday's Supreme Court ruling striking down President Bush's plan to try terrorism suspects in military tribuna...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been called the "opt-out revolution" - an alarming trend of highly qualified women ditching the career tr...

Few combinations lead to the cha-ching of billable hours quite like a dead rich guy and an unhappy heir. ...

The issue of generic causation - i.e. whether some toxin T or hazardous substance S has the general capacity to cause disease ...

LOS ANGELES - A California appeals court ruled that an attorney who brings suit against a current client may still be entitled...

LOS ANGELES - Advocates of tort reform found a reason to gripe and a reason to be hopeful this U.S. Supreme Court session. ...

SACRAMENTO - California's crime rate among youth has dropped to its lowest level in 30 years while at the same time the state ...

LOS ANGELES - The company wants to try the cases separately. The plaintiffs have no problem consolidating some, and the judge ...

The five Higgins orphans who appeared on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" have won a Los Angeles appellate court's sympa...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against two foreign nationals Wednesday who were seeking to overturn their convictio...

LOS ANGELES - When Judge Antonio Barreto went to Ireland last year, his most recent high-profile case followed him. ...

LOS ANGELES - Fifty years ago today , a secretary's telephone conversation transformed the way studios turn ideas into movies....

When you purchase the rights to someone's life story, one of the rights you typically buy is the right not to get sued based o...

'Early in life, we, as foster children, must grow up extremely fast. Sometimes we lose a sense of childhood that some children...

If you subscribe to publications like "Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette" and "Model Railroader," you already may be famil...

A man serving more than six years in prison for arson at a San Diego synagogue must be retried because the judge issued flawed...

MUMBAI, India - American Jay Ethington is a criminal defense attorney with a solo practice. He uses a legal process outsourcin...

LOS ANGELES - Members of California's white-collar criminal bar said Tuesday that an opinion by a New York federal judge could...

MUMBAI, India - Sanjay Kamlani is co-chief executive officer of Pangea3, a legal outsourcing firm where 55 Indian lawyers work...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday tentatively cleared the way for a lawsuit to force the University of California system t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Cruz assemblyman Monday night inserted funding into the 2006-07 state budget for 50 new judges - twice...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Merck & Co. and plaintiffs in the Vioxx litigation will meet with the judge in a Los Angeles cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Magistrate Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill wastes no time. ...

MARTINEZ - About 90 deputy public defenders and other court employees went on strike along with 6,000 Contra Costa County work...