LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Santa Ana awarded $29 million in punitive damages Friday to a German film and television distr...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - It's the simplest, easiest concept: Help the poor and the lost - love thy neighbor. But the exec...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco ordinance that requires landlords to pay tenants 5 percent interest on their security deposits...

LOS ANGELES - A victims' advocacy group has launched a letter-writing campaign to push for public release of Roman Catholic ch...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - That was some spat last week between the two polar opposites on the 9th U.S. Circ...

LOS ANGELES - A divided state appeals court has held that it is not cruel and unusual punishment to jail a homeless Vietnam ve...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, the federal agency charged with protecting employees from workp...

LONG BEACH - Stephen Otto Reitz beat and stabbed his married girlfriend to death during a secret weekend getaway to a Catalina...

SANTA ANA - A man charged with felony assault for spitting on a judge saw those charges dropped Friday. David Will Chey of Irv...

LOS ANGELES - What the heck is the jury doing? That's the essence of motions filed in federal court in recent weeks by attorne...

WASHINGTON - A proposal designed to give the military's top uniformed lawyers independence from the politically appointed gene...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was cases like this that brought Rose Bird down. Death row inmate Duane Holloway's appellate journey traver...

Focus Column - Healthcare - By Kristie M. Mackey - In California, the mentally ill may be held for treatment for a limited per...

WASHINGTON - A controversial proposal to allow the citation of so-called "unpublished" opinions in all federal courts was put ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Roger T. Benitez for a District Court judgeship for the San Diego-based Sou...

LOS ANGELES - Immigrants' rights lawyers said Thursday newly proposed modifications to the USA Patriot Act would restore civil...

FRESNO - If you find yourself in Reedley, appearing in the town's only courtroom, don't say you weren't warned. Signs on the d...

SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach attorney was charged Thursday with 24 felony counts of stealing $641,000 from three clients and...

WASHINGTON - Reports estimate one private contractor for every 10 members of the military in Iraq, a contractor-to-soldier rat...

LOS ANGELES - After transferring from the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide unit to the sexual-assault team and discove...

SAN FRANCISCO - One bitter and prominent remnant of Gov. Ronald Reagan's legacy, some critics say, is California's homeless pr...

SACRAMENTO - Calling himself "Grandma Millie's lawyer," Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed suit Thursday against Enron Corp. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's an old saying in China that "frequent drinking makes friends surrounding." Alcoholic beverages are con...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take up a case involving one of the most significant water q...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk Pasich - It has long been said that an insurer's duty to defend is broader than its dut...

Forum Column - By Bennet G. Kelley - With the campaign battleground now extended to the communion rail, I have decided it's ti...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - In the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration set ab...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson paid at least $15.3 million to settle a 1993 lawsuit that alleged he molested a 13-year-old boy,...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would require DNA samples from all convicted felons to be placed in the state's crime-solving data...