SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who sued Microsoft under California antitrust laws cribbed heavily from volumes of antitrust litigatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Nigerian woman won the right Thursday to renew her asylum claim that she suffers continuing persecution as a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A genetic roll of the dice may give a gambler good eyes, but the government cannot cite that physical attribut...

Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - Since 1996, the list of crimes constituting aggravated felonies has incr...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Jon Pfeiffer - What is the primary purpose of a motion picture? The answer differs depending ...

Forum Column - By Joseph Love - A few days ago, I learned about a bill recently introduced in Congress. Although several years...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ordered an insurance company to pay pretrial interest on a breach-of-contract jury award, ef...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that no conflict with state law exists, an appellate court has upheld the validity of a San Diego ordinance...

SAN JOSE - Citing a recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, a federal judge said Wednesday he would probably revers...

RIVERSIDE - The American Civil Liberties Union and a Los Angeles law firm filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a Native Amer...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two dissident California utility regulators, claiming key elements of the blueprint to reorganize bankrupt Pac...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has struck down a lawsuit brought by a Korean-American seeking reparations for slaving in ...

Notebook - By Robert Selna - Lawyers for the Berkeley NAACP and for the parents of several schoolchildren are seeking to inter...

SANTA ANA - Robert Kneeland, an Orange County judge best known for finding the 1970s-era Fullerton sniper not guilty by reason...

Column By Garry Abrams - Goofy with hubris, tycoon Donald J. Trump wants to trademark the words "You're fired!" This doom-lade...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has given a disgruntled client a second chance to prove misconduct by a prominent San ...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles on Wednesday announced the arrest of 15 Southern California residents ...

LOS ANGELES - You really can't fight City Hall, as David A. Levy discovered Tuesday. That's when the state Supreme Court refus...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - When former Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke publicly swore before a nat...

Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By William L. Buus - You've got a case where a buyer of real property is suing the seller for...

Forum Column - By Louise Melling and Lorraine Kenny - On behalf of the National Abortion Federation and several individual phy...

SAN DIEGO - Appellate court justices Tuesday reversed their 2002 ruling and affirmed that employers can be sued under the stat...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked an order that would have sent three-strikes defendant Pamela ...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers seemed close to persuading the Assembly Judiciary Committee to vote to ban mandatory arbitration cl...

WASHINGTON - Hearing the case of a black defendant convicted of murder by an all-white jury, the Supreme Court justices indica...

MODESTO - The elected district attorney leading the prosecution of Scott Peterson spent time on the witness stand this month, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Loretta M. Norris, known among attorneys for her no-nonsense style d...

SACRAMENTO - Two measures that could dramatically alter the way judges decide the fate of juvenile offenders passed the Senate...

LOS ANGELES - The Glendale motorcycle cop had his lights flashing. That was proved. But the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled...

LOS ANGELES - Allan J. Favish said he took up the fight to make photographs taken at Vincent Foster's death scene public becau...