SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether a man sued for allegedly infectin...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed deep concern that a California inmate - and perhaps as many as ...

LOS ANGELES - Rejecting defense warnings that pretrial publicity would deny Phil Spector a fair trial, a judge Wednesday order...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Randolf Rice remained in critical condition Wednesday in a Redwood City ho...

LOS ANGELES - A child who allegedly was molested in a foster home can sue Los Angeles County long after the six-month statute...

SACRAMENTO - Attorneys representing injured workers petitioned an appellate court Wednesday to halt new workers' compensation...

SAN FRANCISCO - Relying on California's anti-SLAPP law, a federal judge threw out a product disparagement suit Wednesday agai...

BAKERSFIELD - Two Kern County animal shelters accused of violating animal-rights laws have been ordered to stop euthanizing do...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to depublish a landmark 2nd District Court Appeal ruling that make...

Forum Column - By Jennifer Phelps - Jennifer Phelps , an associate in Bingham McCutchen's Los Angeles office, worked with Elec...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk died Tuesday after a 40-year judicial career marked by big-hearted decisions ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Get us out of Houston before we're lynched. We'd look so bad hanging from trees in our double-breas...

INDUSTRIAL SANTA FE SPRINGS - Kwang Jun and Bona Seongkyu Chung have purchased a 25,782-square-foot industrial building locat...

FULLERTON - The father of an Orange County judge and dozens of other World War II veterans of Latino heritage gained special r...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - The uniqueness of family law attorney fe...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jeffrey S. Galvin - Starting Jan. 1, California lenders will have a stronger platfor...

Forum Column - By Viiu Spangler Khare - I boarded a plane for Phoenix on Nov. 1 with high hopes, lots of enthusiasm for the el...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge James Mize brings the fervor of a true believer to his new role as president of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Timber companies need not study vast geographical areas for potential environmental harm from logging to win ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former NASA employee has sued Oakland civil rights lawyer John L. Burris, alleging he failed to supervise a...

SANTA ANA - The parents of a man who was shot with police Taser gun have filed suit, blaming the electrical-shock device for t...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday tapped veteran government lawyer Raymond G. Fortner Jr. t...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors Tuesday outlined their case against William Cottrell, the Caltech graduate student accused v...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi edged out a few inches on a judicial tightrope Monday duri...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the federal government may not deport legal aliens because they are con...

SAN FRANCISCO - Abortion rights advocates got their hopes up a year ago when Republican Sen. Arlen Specter grilled California...

INDUSTRIAL HAYWARD - 1675 Fulton LP has purchased an 84,241-square-foot distribution building located at 2707 McCone Ave. from...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera was just exercising his right to free speech when he referred to o...

Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar - The jubilation of disease advocacy groups and underfunded scientists over the passage of Pr...

Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - ABC's reality show "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" will not go down in television l...