Letter to the Editor - The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued to stop police from randomly searching some New York City s...

Forum Column By Michael McMahon Last month, police began random searches of packages carried by people entering New York City...

Forum Column - By Max Factor III - In seventh grade at El Rodeo Elementary School, I completed an English essay on "why I want...

Forcus Column - Business Law - By Jeremiah Reynolds - The threat of liability is always a major concern for businesses in Cali...

LOS ANGELES - Five orphaned siblings, homeless less than six months after a reality show built them a new house, are suing the...

LOS ANGELES - Two months after the firing of two top lawyers at Los Angeles County's Children's Law Center, 100 workers and s...

LOS ANGELES - Frustration prompted Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian to look for alternative methods of resolving conflic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to take up a defamation case involving prominent Jewish leaders ...

LOS ANGELES - A three-member arbitration panel has ordered a Native American tribe to pay at least $22.5 million to the devel...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney general's office today will add "a significant number of new companies" to an existing lawsuit t...

Colulmn - By Garry Abrams - How long is eternity? How about 18 hours? That's how long U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of a state judicial watchdog agency grilled Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin A. Ross on Wednesd...

SAN FRANCISCO - No comment means no comment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. Reversing a life sentence, the 9th U.S....

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal judge indicated Tuesday he is leery of allowing prosecutors to keep their witness lis...

ORANGE - If Superior Court Judge Josephine Staton Tucker was growing impatient with Todd A. Story's numerous objections, it d...

SAN JOSE - Jim Shore, a 16-year veteran lawyer with the Santa Clara County district attorney's office, is poised to enter the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The First Amendment does not protect an Arizona prison inmate who said he wanted to string a federal judge up...

Symantec Corp. announced it has agreed to acquire privately held Sygate Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Freemont-...

LOS ANGELES - Despite last week's $253-million verdict against Vioxx-maker Merck Co., the pharmaceutical giant says it remains...

Forum Column - By Gerald F. Uelmen - It now appears that the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to succeed Justice Sandra...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - The results of a major survey released in June taking the U.S. population's pulse on free exp...

Focus Column - Corporate Governance - By Louis R. Dienes - Venture capital investors often require a seat on a corporation's b...

LOS ANGELES - Ellen Miller Quarnstrom, the first woman to become a judge in Kern County, has died. Quarnstrom died Thursday at...

SAN DIEGO - San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre plans to represent the city in a Securities and Exchange Commission invest...

LOS ANGELES - Acting on a tip from a former prosecutor, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has filed five welfa...

LOS ANGELES - Agilent Technologies, the world's largest maker of scientific-testing equipment, will drop two struggling busine...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Benjamin G. Shatz and Lara M. Krieger - The first and most important step in any appeal is t...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego judge on Tuesday stopped short of charging top state prison officials with contempt but warned them th...

The legal community continues to honor attorney Carl R. Poirot for championing pro bono services to the poor and needy in San ...

Forum Column - By Joaquin G. Avila - In Thomas L. Friedman's new book, "The World Is Flat," The New York Times columnist conte...