SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday found it fundamentally unfair for a prosecutor to compel a defendant to call ...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has rejected a request by ChevronTexaco Corp. to ask the federal government ...
SAN FRANCISCO - After a rocky start with police over the killing of a cop, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has m...
SAN FRANCISCO - John M. Forney, one of the key players in Enron Corp.'s manipulation of the California energy crisis, pleaded ...
Constitutional Law
Wireless-Privacy Lawsuit Raises Novel Issues
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Ontario Police Sgt. Jeff Quon thought he was having private conversations with other officers and family members w...
SAN DIEGO - Citing new evidence, the district attorney said Thursday she will seek a new trial for a San Diego man imprisoned ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Alameda County prosecutor Ted Landswick wanted to nail 20-year-old Robert Young for three drug-related...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court uncorked a jeroboam-size opinion Thursday protecting Napa Valley wines from vino with ...
SANTA ANA - An Irvine law firm is filing suits alleging nonexistent or minor violations of federal handicap-access laws in an ...
IRVINE - The only West Coast member of the Sept. 11 commission criticized President Bush's response to the committee's report ...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael Paul Thomas - Trial judges face opposing responsibilities when lawyers seek continuance...
Forum Column - By Michael P. Stone - Again, a videotaped Los Angeles Police Department "beating" is the topic of community out...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - When I graduated from Hastings College of the Law in 1983, our keynote speaker was comed...
LOS ANGELES - Private services are planned for Deputy City Attorney David Manella, a fixture at the Hollywood courthouse. Mane...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Okinawa dugong may be many things to many people - cultural icon, lumbering undersea beast, relative of th...
REDWOOD CITY - At the Scott Peterson double-murder trial, the conventional wisdom is that the prosecution is blowing it. That'...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal has reinstated a fraud lawsuit against Jones Day law firm for hiding a "toxic" ...
SAN FRANCISCO - None of the federal judges in San Francisco's Northern District wanted the case of the former Silicon Valley e...
SACRAMENTO - A legal war is being fought in California that involves billions of dollars, a venerable Supreme Court doctrine, ...
LOS ANGELES - A man freed from jail by an episode of the cable television comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm" has filed a federal ci...
SAN DIEGO - Using a sting operation, authorities in San Diego and from the state Public Utilities Commission snared seven limo...
LOS ANGELES - Hours after Mary Kay Letourneau left a Washington prison Wednesday where she served seven years for raping her s...
SACRAMENTO - Buried deep within a sweeping proposal to revamp California's government bureaucracy this week is a recommendatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first jury to assess any of the many excessive-force allegations leveled against Alex Fagan Jr. handed the...
LOS ANGELES - A year ago, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy exhorted the American Bar Association to work to eliminate harsh criminal...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has struck down federal permits that allow extensive cattle grazing and off-road vehicle use on millio...
SANTA ANA - Orange Superior Court Judge Patrick H. Donahue has done a lot in his 55 years. He served in the Marines, spent 15 ...
Criminal
No Intelligence, However Dim, Will Be Disseminated Before It Is Time
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Old intelligence may be better than no intelligence. But by how much? This week's security alert spar...
LOS ANGELES - In 1994, a state appellate court ordered Whitley Heights, an enclave of old Hollywood glamour perched above the ...
Forum Column - By Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker - The idea of an intelligence czar and an infrastructure to support the position ...