LOS ANGELES - In a move leaving some participants and case observers crying foul, Los Angeles federal prosecutors gave documen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expressing sensitivity for the rights of patent holders, a lively U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday fired a barr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday it would look at the regulatory underpinnings of the 1999 deal tha...

LOS ANGELES - Former tenants of a Lancaster apartment house, including 36 children, have won a $3 million settlement from the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Judge Wynne Carvill sought a change of pace when he applied for the bench in 2000, but landing ...

Forum Column - By Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. - It has been one year since our mentor and friend, the late Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., ...

Focus Column - By Curt Metzgar - Ever since the California Supreme Court decided Gray v. Zurich Ins. Co . 65 Cal.2d 263 (1966)...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just days after the release of a new book alleging steroid use by baseball slugger Barry Bonds, the U.S. Sente...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate panel Tuesday ordered a San Francisco Juvenile Court judge to reconsider a bisexual offender's peti...

WASHINGTON - Honduran citizen Mario Bustillo was arrested and convicted in Virginia of murdering a man outside a fast-food res...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Frank J. Johnson spends several weekends a year motorcycling in the desert with his sons. It's a hobby tha...

A Los Angeles judge signaled Tuesday that he would move french fries to the front burner in his court. Superior Court Judge We...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court expressed concern Tuesday about the lawfulness of the military tribunals President Bush es...

SAN JOSE - For decades it has been a near certainty that anyone who is caught misusing patented information will be forever ba...

LOS ANGELES - In 1996, nine years into his legal career, James N. Bianco decided to tackle the treacherous glaciers of Alaska'...

Forum Column - By Bert Brandenburg - The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , 05-...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Marin County court executive facing criminal charges for allegedly steering government contracts to h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attempts by Barry Bonds to strike back at the authors of "Game of Shadows" - a book that claims the record-set...

WASHINGTON - A fast-moving proposal in Congress to tighten border security has immigration lawyers worried that foreigners fle...

COACHELLA - TMC America provided $3.85 million of equity financing to Coachella Land 389 LLC for the acquisition of phases II ...

LOS ANGELES - Demanding $5 from your friend amounts to robbery when, just hours earlier, you harassed him at work, waved a gun...

LOS ANGELES - Jason L. Nazar's first business worked like this: he lent his fellow third and fourth graders $3; a week later, ...

Letter to the Editor - The Daily Journal's March 16 article "Girding for Its Biggest Battle," about Christensen, Miller, Fink,...

Focus Column - By Lester O. Brown - In Kelo, et al. v. City of New London, Connecticut, et al. , 125 S. Ct. 2655 (June 23, 200...

Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Arecent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision addresses the potential conflict or...

LOS ANGELES - Scott McPhee, a real estate and finance attorney, has rejoined Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office afte...

LOS ANGELES - Four labor and employment attorneys at Musick Peeler & Garrett are singing a new tune after departing the la...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is doubling the number of retired homicide investigators hired to wo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A 91-year-old San Francisco woman who almost lost her duplex and saw her bank account nearly drained is part o...

LOS ANGELES - Carl E. Jones, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney whose folksy demeanor beguiled juries into favoring his c...