SANTA ANA - Adding to a recent wave of lawsuits targeting the safety of Disneyland's rides, the family of a 22-year-old man ki...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association released proposed code revisions Tuesday governing gifts to judges and judicial ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have tightened restrictions on handling waste kitchen...

LOS ANGELES - Goodyear Tires and Ford Motors reached a "substantial" settlement Tuesday with several injured Marines and the f...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court showed little interest Tuesday in restricting the use of public records to thrust ...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday refused to stop the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego from transferring property, including tw...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - What is your idea of visual blight? Is it tattered political campaign posters on telephone poles ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has resurrected a defamation lawsuit filed by a former girlfriend of the musician Prince's...

SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration officials can't force the children of permanent resident aliens out of the U.S. when they turn 21...

Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - A lot of our legal culture is enshrined in pithy statements that usually sound more imp...

Forum Column - By Deborah Wald - People tend to think of California as being ahead of the curve on family law issues. After al...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - To those in the trenches, litigation often can resemble a military cam...

LOS ANGELES - In a case of first impression, a state appellate court Monday threw out a million-dollar age and discrimination ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's attorney wants to keep from jurors all "tangible and intangible" evidence seized during a May 200...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bonnie Rose Hough, a senior attorney at the Administrative Office of the Courts' Center for Families, Children...

SACRAMENTO - Advocates for homeowner association members are puzzling over a veto message the governor issued on a bill that w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of four Iranian brothers jailed since 2001 as supporters of an alleged terrorist group must be released on...

Column By Garry Abrams - Proposition 69, the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, on the Nov. 2 ballo...

SAN DIEGO - The family had a run of misfortunes beginning in 1999. The father and one daughter were killed while cliff diving ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to rule that portions of the federal sentencing guidelines are uncons...

SAN FRANCISCO - The clothes may not make the man, but sometimes they offer some clues. In the case of Alameda County Superior ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a challenge to California's tribal-state gambling compacts that al...

LOS ANGELES - Activist Ted Hayes will be in court this week to fight for $532 million from the city of Los Angeles for alleged...

Forum Column - By Rory K. Little - This first Monday in October presents oral arguments in a pair of expedited cases in the U....

Forum Column - By Daniel Moulthrop - The combatants in the endless and expensive wars over water use in California should meet...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - Long before Arthur Andersen and Martha Stewart made high-profile financial fraud ...

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold a confirmation hearing Tuesday on Justice Norman Epstein's nom...

LOS ANGELES - Former Compton Judge Huey Percy Shepard pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he siphoned $176,000 from clients, ...

RIVERSIDE - The county's Superior Court judges have decided they cannot fairly hear a lawsuit accusing the court's presiding j...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - Federal officials brought their road show to San Francisco last week, trying to invigorate a law ...