LOS ANGELES - In a sharply worded opinion, a state appellate court has rebuked an Orange County judge for throwing out a busin...

WASHINGTON - The light- and dark-green amicus briefs in the Supreme Court's first cases assessing the constitutionality of the...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the men convicted of kidnapping a busload of children outside Chowchilla in 1976 appears to have suffer...

LOS ANGELES - Under pressure from outraged state Assembly members, State Bar leaders on Friday issued a broad resolution calli...

LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an Orange County sheriff's deputy can be sued for allege...

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers in the offices of San Diego County's public defender and alternate public defender have begun receiving no...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Jury trials, as any judge knows, are fraught with pitfalls. As the Tyco corporate...

SAN FRANCISCO - One threatened to jump off the Bay Bridge, snarling traffic for 13 hours, and the other is accused of killing ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Thursday threw out a closely watched lawsuit filed by a Boalt Hall student to recover a ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Lorelei Westin and Al Halluin - "Nanotechnology" is a word used by many but actually...

Near Cua Viet, 1967 An old woman knelt Weeping her son Into the earth. "Mother, who did this?" "Men," she said. ...

Forum Column - By Robert A. Pugsley - On April 5, the state Supreme Court upheld a basic principle of criminal law, which unju...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - During her testimony before the Sept. 11 commission, National Security Advisor Condo...

Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Facing multiple interviewers at the same time can be intimidating, but with preparat...

SAN FRANCISCO - An influential advisory panel is poised to release the results of a four-year study into possible improvements...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Santa Clara Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell, the first black female judge in Northern Californ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The head of San Francisco's police union has abruptly backed off his cautious endorsement of District Attorney...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who had been accused of collecting state injury payments while doing heavy...

LOS ANGELES - The attorney for former users of the diabetes medication Rezulin told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday...

LOS ANGELES - Some of California's most influential Democratic and Republican lawyers wrote to the state's congressional deleg...

MODESTO - Stanislaus County residents who hear the name Whiteside usually equate it first with Carol Whiteside, who worked for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two-strike convict Ronnie E. Young deserved a year off his sentence because he saved the life of a choking pri...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court, handing a victory to the pharmaceutical industry and the Bush administration, ru...

SAN DIEGO - Kathleen A. Salvaty sometimes rolls down her car window and sniffs the night air as she drives through Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four young men who killed transgender teen Gwen Araujo thought she deserved to die for deceiving them about he...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael M. Pollak - Many plaintiffs' attorneys have trouble pleading causes of action in insura...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk Pasich - It long has been the case that when an insured is sued and the complaint alleg...

Forum Column - By Edmund Cogburn - Is U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political-power engine finally facing derailment?...

WASHINGTON - After months of debate over the merits of a controversial proposal to allow the citation of so-called "unpublishe...

Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - Everyone applauds California inmate Ronnie Young for saving a man's life, but Y...