Describing their complaint as a "desperate last resort," ACLU attorneys filed suit Thursday charging administrators and teache...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan named two prosecutors to serve as district election monitors in Northern California ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has changed course, ruling that the personnel records of Catholic priests accused of child s...

LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand S. Rubin steps to the podium to receive the Century City Bar Associa...

RIVERSIDE - In a drastic move, District Attorney Grover Trask is boycotting one of Riverside's highest-profile judges from fel...

SAN FRANCISCO - In brochures and on television, familiar faces are urging San Franciscans to vote on Proposition K, a measure...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Arizona Christian advocacy group that fought to stop Mayor Gavin Newsom from issuing marriage licenses to s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three jurors in the West Memphis Three case have recently admitted that they reached guilty verdicts by consid...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been called one of the Bible Belt's most infamous murders. But nowhere outside of West Memphis, Ark., has...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Peter M. Walzer and Yvonne V. Champana - On Jan. 1, 2005, same-sex registered domestic partners...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - There's a growing trend in our family law courts, and it involves the appointment of couns...

Forum Column - By Joseph M. Bessette and Jennifer E. Walsh - In 1995, police in San Diego County arrested a gang member riding...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay jury awarded nearly $900,000 to a construction firm after finding that Alameda County wrongfully ...

SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court Wednesday again upheld a 27-years-to-life sentence against an AIDS-stricken, semi-homeless ...

SAN FRANCISCO-Hundreds of lawyers, judges and even the former state poet of Pennsylvania joined in honoring U.S. District Jud...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Wednesday tossed out a nearly $2.3 million jury award favoring a sick worker that wen...

LOS ANGELES - In a major victory for federal prosecutors in their long campaign to break up the violent prison gang, the 9th U...

SAN FRANCISCO-Rebecca Hardie, an eight-year veteran prosecutor in the San Francisco U.S. attorney's office, announced Wednesd...

SACRAMENTO - While DNA testing has been widely touted as a valuable tool for crime-fighting and as a means to exonerate the i...

Column - By Garry Abrams - It's time to take a trip down Hollywood's memory lane in search of the truth. Stop laughing, please...

SAN DIEGO - Edmond B. Mamer, a 34-year veteran of the state attorney general's office who loved horses as much as he did the l...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge's ruling Wednesday appeared to vindicate an Alameda property owner accused of forcing low-inc...

WASHINGTON - Four British citizens formerly detained by the United States as enemy combatants filed suit on Wednesday against ...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a convicted murderer's challenge to the use of testimony fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stumping for Proposition 69 on Wednesday, Attorney General Bill Lockyer touted the more than 1,000 cases wher...

LOS ANGELES - Responding to widespread community outrage over the planned closure of King-Drew Medical Center's trauma unit, ...

SACRAMENTO - American Indian tribes that have donated millions of dollars to California's political campaigns must obey the s...

INDUSTRIAL VERNON - Western States Technologies Inc. has purchased a 33,348-square-foot industrial building located at 3285 E....

MIXED USE LOS ANGELES - Legacy Partners LLC has purchased a 2.05-acre parcel for redevelopment at 5550-5570 Wilshire Blvd. fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall's new dean stirred a debate recently when he declared the school cannot stay in the top tier witho...