LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated a civil rights lawsuit against several Adelanto cit...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Pasadena attorney Robert Paul Pratte Sr., whose longtime corporate clients include...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense attorneys will seek to dismiss 17 espionage-related charges against Airman Ahmad I. Al Halabi today, c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance suffered the loss of three litigation partners this week, marking the first defections from th...

Notebook - By Donna Domino - SAN FRANCISCO - Ever wanted to vent your spleen about the cutthroat, unethical opposing counsel y...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert M. Letteau drew a public admonishment Thursday for hostile and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clad in purple T-shirts, about 50 San Francisco Superior Court employees gathered outside the McAllister Stree...

LOS ANGELES - The 2001 murder of Asian-American teenager Kenneth Chiu by a deaf, white-supremacist neighbor was shocking, brea...

SANTA ANA - As one defense attorney hammered at the testimony of the woman at the center of a high-profile gang-rape trial Thu...

LOS ANGELES - Stephen Czuleger appreciates the difference between being a civil court judge and a criminal court judge. He's b...

LOS ANGELES - Public-interest advocate Rebecca Isaacs will replace Clemente Franco as executive director of the Inner City Law...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concerned that a Contra Costa judge failed to halt a 2000 death penalty trial involving a mentally retarded de...

LOS ANGELES - Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich is losing its former chairman and two other litigation partners to the San Dieg...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lesbian who helped artificially inseminate her partner and then helped raise their twin children cannot be o...

SACRAMENTO - Maggie Baingana wasn't too keen about attending a university she'd never heard of in a city she'd never heard of....

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavol Lazarenko failed to convince a federal judge Wednesday to pl...

Forum Column - By Eve Hill - Although this week marks the 50th anniversary of the courageous and important Supreme Court decis...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colu...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Michael Jackson is presumed innocent of the child-molestation charges aga...

STOCKTON - It's a murder mystery about a wrongfully convicted Albert Einstein doing time in a prison controlled by Nazi spies ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Employers could reduce or entirely eliminate retirees' health benefits once their former w...

WASHINGTON - A day after the White House and the Senate resolved a political dispute over President Bush's recess appointments...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court executives on Wednesday approved a revised version of a plan, first made public in Ap...

SACRAMENTO - Most states that take large chunks of plaintiffs' punitive damage awards get very little money because the awards...

SANTA ANA - The girl at the center of a high-profile gang rape case testified Wednesday that she did not originally want the t...

A year after Santa Barbara Sheriff's deputies arrested 10 gay men who allegedly engaged in lewd conduct near a local beach, pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer hinted Wednesday that he's unlikely to second-guess District Attorney Kamala Har...

LOS ANGELES - Union officials have asked state legislators to investigate a "culture of secrecy and intimidation" at Los Angel...

Column By Garry Abrams - In the extraordinary life of Death Row Records impresario Marion "Suge" Knight, the same events seem ...

LOS ANGELES - Amid mounting calls for investigations and reforms of Los Angeles County's troubled jails, Sheriff Lee Baca said...