LOS ANGELES - A man who served 24 years in prison for a murder he said he didn't commit has filed civil rights claims against ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge in Santa Ana has ruled that a U.S. citizen accused of trying to bomb the Vietnamese e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Gifford, a popular Alameda County criminal court judge who recently pleaded no contest in a prostitution ...

SACRAMENTO - Bruce Harrington's brother and sister-in-law, Keith and Patti Harrington, were killed in 1980 by an intruder who ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pelican Bay inmate Frank S. Clement protested in 1999 when guards withheld his pen pal letters because they ca...

Forum Column - By Sue Blake - On Easter Sunday, the FX Network aired a special feature titled, "Redemption: The Stanley 'Tooki...

Forum Column - By Stanley "Tookie" Williams - There are at least two illegitimate reasons for my sitting on San Quentin's deat...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles McCoy has recommended that clergy sexual-abuse lawsuits filed in Northe...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and state officials have no authority to force adult-film actors to use condoms during sex sc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County prosecutors dismissed sex-abuse charges Tuesday against an embattled Oakland minister who was a...

LOS ANGELES - Audrey Woods promises women that, if she represents them in divorce court, they'll get everything they deserve f...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris tapped Criminal Division Chief Paul Cummins on Tuesday to prosec...

LOS ANGELES - Latham & Watkins has hired a Los Angeles finance partner from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom a mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday blocked $100 million in Yosemite National Park construction projects th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A California law prohibiting employers from using money they get from the state to finance anti-union efforts ...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has been taking a considerable amount of heat latel...

WASHINGTON - Taking its first look at the Bush administration's war on terrorism, the Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down a bar...

SANTA BARBARA - Robert M. Sanger threw Santa Barbara courts into disarray last year when he convinced a judge that the county'...

Forum Column - By Dirk Stemerman - Many have characterized the recent workers' compensation legislation as another victory for...

Focus Column - International Law - By Carlos Dodds, Mara Eugenia Oliver & Daniel Orlansky - U.S. employers with employees ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran San Francisco attorney under fire for standing up the California Supreme Court in February made "num...

LOS ANGELES - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., one of the most celebrated attorneys in the United States, underwent exploratory surgery...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they arr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Advocates for reform of the U.S. patent system have gained a new champion. The National Academy of Sciences, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - He ignored five orders for discovery. Then he was sanctioned twice for disobeying court orders. In an attempt ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge, accusing a prosecutor of the "willful, deliberate concealment" of evidence, has refused...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley vowed Monday to fight county plans to eliminate 23 deputy dist...

WASHINGTON - Faced with the prospect of overturning more than 100 death penalties - and perhaps thousands of noncapital senten...

WASHINGTON - After serving on the highly contentious Senate Judiciary Committee for 23 years, Sen. Arlen Specter is only one e...

Column By Garry Abrams - Among federal judges, size matters. ...