SAN FRANCISCO - The city of San Francisco is not without allies in its defiant stand against the state's marriage laws. But th...

Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - The five-justice majority in recent 11th Amendment and Commerce Clause rulings has reli...

Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Grace Suarez - If you are like many defense lawyers practicing juvenile law, you have a numbe...

Forum Column - By Charles L. Lindner - ABC's latest contribution to crime drama, "The District Attorney," premiered at 10 p.m....

SACRAMENTO - Three bills that would crack down on immigration consultants who prey upon desperate people with dreams of citize...

SACRAMENTO - Two measures that would grant members of the news media greater access to state prison inmates cleared key commit...

LOS ANGELES - The Food and Drug Administration's order to drug makers to slap warning labels on antidepressants including Paxi...

WASHINGTON - Debate on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage continued in the Senate on Tuesday, as Republicans and D...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Tuesday awarded a Texas man $58 million for life-threatening burns he suffe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig is taking another stab at overturning a federal law that extended copyr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and air quality regulators announced a deal Tuesday that may help reshape the market establi...

LOS ANGELES - Tough luck if you are caught driving drunk, even in a speed trap. That's the message from an appellate court Mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - In heated, sometimes humorous jabs, members of an 11-judge appellate panel Tuesday wrangled with each other as...

SANTA BARBARA - Not long after Judge Denise de Bellefeuille took a seat on the Santa Barbara Superior Court, she dreamed that ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lot of lawyers wish their disgruntled ex-clients would just shut up and go away. Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. did ...

SACRAMENTO - In his annual State of the Judiciary speech to the Legislature, Chief Justice Ronald M. George urged lawmakers Tu...

LOS ANGELES - The double murder conviction of an African-American gang member from Pasadena has been thrown out because the ju...

Focus Column - International Law - By Gabriele Mezger-Lashly - When binational marriages dissolve, one parent often returns to...

Forum Column - By Sasha Abramsky - Since the 2000 election debacle, an increasing number of politicians and activists has been...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By David Michail - Since Jan. 1, legal professionals must be aware of the new Controlling the As...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, announced membership reductions in several committees Monday, inclu...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the landmark 1997 San Francisco ordinance that requires city ...

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to rule that police officers can arrest people merely becau...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kathleen Fisher, one of Morrison & Foerster's top rainmakers and the first woman to head its litigation de...

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit in which a woman claimed an investigator misstated facts in an affidavit f...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday declined to dismiss drug charges against a married couple who claim to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The hands of the clock on San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Arlene Borick's office wall run backwards ...

SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer appointed a national expert on consumer protection Monday to a new job d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tour directors won a $14 million settlement in federal court Monday on claims they were denied overtime wages ...

Column - Employment Law - By Malcolm A. Heinicke - California employment practitioners know that the requirement that a plaint...