James Lavell Harris had used marijuana all his life for chronic pain. So when he was sentenced to serve time in the Lake Count...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a theater-lover like Greg Conklin, it was a natural fit. A transplanted New Yorker who saw lots of plays t...

WASHINGTON - Long on intrigue but short on blockbuster decisions, 2006 was something of an intermission year at the U.S. Supre...

More than 17 years after one of the worst environmental disasters in American history, a federal appeals court hopes it has se...

LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Helen I. Bendix is famous for her diligence and hard work. ...

Perker L. Meeks Jr., a veteran of the San Francisco County Superior Court bench, will retire at year's end.

FOCUS COLUMN - By Frank M. Loo - The California Constitution gives each citizen an "inalienable right" to pursue and obtain "p...

Discipline Column

VALENCIA - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Richman had read the last progress report of the morning when he turned his ...

AUBURN - Frances Kearney likes to fix things. Whether it's remodeling a house, clearing a huge backlog of civil cases or organ...

SAN FRANCISCO - If it weren't for a chance rainstorm, retired Sonoma County Superior Court Judge William L. Bettinelli probabl...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Judge Henry E. Needham to the 1st District Court of Appeals and nine attorneys to lower b...

LOS ANGELES - One of the nation's major media company agreed to settle an overtime class action brought against it by 61 newsp...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lost the first round in court Thursday when a judge ruled unconstitutiona...

LOS ANGELES - The National Senior Citizens Law Center is proceeding with a lawsuit against the U.S. secretary of Health and Hu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Susanne S. Shaw, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge who was scolded numerous times for caustic behav...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in over a year, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles will be hiring a new crop of prosec...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Matthew T. Heartney - It's not too late to rethink holding manufacturers liable when others misuse their pro...

FORUM COLUMN - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California's women prisoners are getting the worst of a bad system. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Larry Irving and Michael D. Gallagher - The new Congress should fund and support inter-agency communications...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Peter E. Masaitis and Brian J. Bergman - Recent state and federal decisions are giving employers some r...

LOS ANGELES - Earlier this year, George J. Stephan and Todd C. Theodora sat in a courtroom together and heard a jury find that...

SAN DIEGO - Fresno schools will get more buses and classroom computers thanks to the efforts of a small San Diego law firm tha...

Indian tribes have become a powerful political force in the state and should be held accountable if they don't report campaign...

Luck never followed Rudy Roybal. Or the lawyers who took his death-penalty case. ...

LOS ANGELES - When Brian Kabateck was in college, he hosted a 4:30 a.m. radio show on Los Angeles' rock station KROQ. ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Alana B. Hoffman, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - The sh...

AOL Time Warner Inc. has agreed to settle civil fraud charges brought by the California teachers' pension fund, which accused ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some criminal court judges in San Francisco won't be taking as much holiday leave as they'd hoped to this year...

LOS ANGELES - Investigators are searching for a man alleged to have stolen the identity of a U.S. Army judge advocate, then us...