SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a kidnapping charge was appropriate for a defendant who trick...
SAN FRANCISCO - A North Carolina energy company has agreed to pay San Francisco Unified School District $43.1 million to settl...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time in its 83-year history, the San Francisco public defender's office will begin charging clie...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Cassandra S. Franklin - It's a familiar scenario. Discovery has begun in your case and the othe...
Forum Column - By Thomas R. Owens - For some of us, the videotaped beating of Stanley Miller by uniformed officers of the Los ...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey Eglash - The videotaped beating of Stanley Miller by a Los Angeles Police Department officer poses t...
Forum Column - By Anthony Lewis - "A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the na...
LOS ANGELES - The Orange County court employees' union cannot bypass the court in an effort to get travel records for judges a...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco judges will increase bail today for a variety of crimes ranging from the sale of marijuana to po...
SAN DIEGO - John J. Ambrose Jr. worked as a Los Angeles County prosecutor, a sole practitioner in Palos Verdes and a San Diego...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the San Francisco-based federal appeals court to consider whether a petiti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Would you buy a used car from Arnold Schwarzenegger? Akron, Ohio, auto dealer Fred Martin thought so and used ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge John Kraetzer likely knows no one would give him an award for moving trials along...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew Henderson - Punitive damages make up a notoriously contentious field of law. As in the ...
Forum Column - By Abdul Aziz Said - It is important that the mistakes of the past, which brought the authoritarian regime of S...
LOS ANGELES - Allstate Insurance agreed Tuesday to issue life coverage to people who have visited Israel, and six other carrie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance will close its doors in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego tonight, leaving only its fou...
LOS ANGELES - A Newport Beach man won an $11.9 million jury verdict in a wrongful-termination suit against his former employer...
A state appellate court Tuesday struck down the sentence in a drug treatment case, saying that under Proposition 36 a judge ca...
HAYWARD - An Alameda County judge Tuesday rejected prosecutors' arguments that the lead attorney in the Riders police corrupti...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Alvarez-Machain case left in doubt the future of a series of lawsuits fil...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - Back in 1986, the late Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk testified before the state Assembly Com...
SAN FRANCISCO - A three-attorney arbitration panel has awarded the bankruptcy estate of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison $8 mil...
LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic church has filed a legal challenge to a California law that opened the door to hundreds of se...
Government
Trial of the Century: Saddam's Top Ten Alibis for Getting Off Scot-Free
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will be turned over to the custody of the new government of Iraq...
WASHINGTON - Handing a defeat to Congress and the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the free-speech ri...
WASHINGTON - In a decision that offered a victory to the Bush administration and to victims of human rights abuses, the Suprem...
SANTA ANA - Each day of their eight-week gang-rape trial, the baby-faced, neatly dressed trio sat with their hands folded. The...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Communications Decency Act shields makers of spam-blocking software against suits by commercial e-mailers ...