SAN FRANCISCO - Could an Oakland judge legendary for his innate sense of justice really have conspired to fix a capital murder...

SAN FRANCISCO - A plaintiff attorney's analogy to jurors, in which he implied the judge had permitted them to lie to their emp...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Thursday ordered the government to explain its basis for holding a Libyan man detained in Guan...

LOS ANGELES - A Chino prison guard was arrested Thursday on federal racketeering charges for allegedly helping the Nazi Low Ri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Alameda County prosecutors say a former colleague's claims that their office at one time had a practi...

SACRAMENTO - U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson hasn't spelled out what, specifically, in the state's proposed contract cha...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Some juvenile-court judges feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the legal profession:...

Film Review - "The Hunting of the President" - By Stephen Zager - You know you are in an election year when political document...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michaelbrent Collings - The demurrer is something almost every litigator faces, and most face i...

Forum Column - By M.K.B. Darmer - Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals joined a growing list of courts in finding ...

SAN DIEGO - Fending off threats of legal action, the City Council has asked voters to decide whether the city should sell a pi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Air Force prosecutors dropped a bank fraud charge against alleged Guantnamo Bay spy Ahmad I. Al Halabi after a...

LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey S. Turner, a commercial law expert and counsel in Kaye Scholer's Los Angeles office, died July 17 of a h...

SAN JOSE - A state drug agent was indicted Wednesday in the shooting death of a fleeing suspect in what is believed to be the ...

LOS ANGELES - Saying that scheduling problems are the judge's problem, a state appellate court Wednesday reversed a $12 millio...

LOS ANGELES - Wards of the juvenile court are not required to pay a $20 court security fee mandated under the Penal Code for c...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit against a Northridge hospital and its mental health team for fail...

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for two defendants whose federal sentences were invalidated in light of the Supreme Court's landmark Blak...

HOLLISTER - San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield won a landslide election two years ago as an upstanding outside...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not every day that a clash over a $35 fine lands in the lap of a federal appellate panel, posing question...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday voted unanimously to review a lawsuit filed by a Boalt Hall student to reco...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's lead negotiator on California's controversial prison contract is a 21-year veteran guard who once ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ordered an inquiry Wednesday into a former Alameda County prosecutor's confession...

SANTA MARIA - Stung by bad publicity after revealing that he shared his bed with children, Michael Jackson kidnapped a 13-year...

Forum Column - By Maya Harris - The advertisement is as appealing as it is unlikely: "Imagine a world without crime, where per...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By John Josef Molenda - Descriptive terminology is essential to providing effective pat...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - A few years before his death, my father Justice Stanley Mosk again demonstrated the farsig...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that nonprofit organizations can't practice law in California unless the...

SAN JOSE - For the second time in less than a year, Santa Clara County prosecutors are taking the highly unusual step of openi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California plaintiffs' firms settled securities fraud cases Tuesday against Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy ...