The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights launched a courtroom crusade against the state government last month, charging...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a child in segregated Maryland, Jim Finberg watched his mother help black citizens register to vote and hi...

The answer to the recent surge in fossil fuel prices could be blowing in the wind, according to members of the growing, five-l...

Forum Column - By Robert J. Grey Jr. - According to the National Center for State Courts, each year 5 million Americans receiv...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert C. Laurenson and Don F. Livornese - An important debate is under way at the U...

Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - The Michael Jackson molestation trial is scheduled to begin in state court early next year, bu...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Norman Karlin, a longtime professor at Southwestern University School of Law, will be Jan...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether foreign nationals on death rows in this country can challe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hospital worker who claimed her job was too stressful had no right to take an unpaid medical leave while sh...

SACRAMENTO - The California Judicial Council plans to pursue legislation to adopt a uniform civil fees schedule and to ask vo...

EXTRA Feature - When EXTRA asked Los Angeles attorney Kelli Sager what she'd like to receive this holiday season, she was quic...

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who is recovering at home from thyroid cancer, is planning to swear in Presi...

LOS ANGELES - In a major setback for cigarette makers, a state appellate court ruled Friday that most disputes lingering from ...

LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs and defendants increasingly are flocking to private judges and attorneys who hold out the promise of ...

LAND VISALIA - El Progresso Restaurant purchased 72,309 square feet of land from the Family Health Care Network. Terms of the...

LOS ANGELES - It's Christmastime. Five mobsters sit around a table playing cards, laughing and jawing in exaggerated Bronx acc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and fishing organizations are threatening a Clean Water Act lawsuit that could impose major...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Judge William J. McGuiness of Oakland was remembered Thursday as a "consummate gentleman" during his ...

WASHINGTON - The Canadian Supreme Court ruling on Thursday allowing the country's government to legalize same-sex marriage cou...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - The casebook method has long been the favored tool of learning for law st...

Forum Column - By Donald E.J. Kilmer Jr. - Dec. 15 is the anniversary of our Bill of Rights. Under 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

Forum Column - The following is a statement from Charles Pickering, the Mississippi judge whose nomination to the 5th U.S. Cir...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - California is a state where rags to riches stories are not uncommon. It is a place where p...

Letter to the Editor - Regarding "Schools Need More Sensible System Than Zero Tolerance," (Nov. 15 Daily Journal): Omitted fro...

Column - Employment Law - By James J. McDonald Jr. - Two laws will go into effect in California on Jan. 1, that are likely to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services are scheduled Monday for retired Judge Lewis P. May of the Alameda County Municipal Court. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Funeral services are scheduled today for Jerry Curtis, a former assistant state attorney general and Alameda ...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley decided Thursday he would not retry the three remaining LAPD officers charged in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declined Thursday to halt a proposed upscale residential development in West Los...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inmate Terrance Covington can sue guards at Corcoran State Prison for beating him excessively during a cell e...