Forum Column - By Michelle Mascarenhas and Tracie Thomas - There are still adults who will tell you that kids don't like fruit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. have overwhelmingly endorsed a compromise plan for lifting the utili...

LOS ANGELES - Can a mentally ill criminal offender locked up in a state hospital be forcibly medicated? The California Supreme...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Warren G. Greene, respected not only by colleagues and attorneys but even by th...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department got the go-ahead from the Board of Supervisors Wednesday to begin su...

LOS ANGELES - T. Sumner Robinson, known for sharing his contagious enthusiasm for journalism during his five years as associat...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court showed little sympathy Wednesday for three defendants serving lengthy prison terms ...

WASHINGTON - Responding to demands from Congress, officials Wednesday approved changes to the federal sentencing guidelines ai...

WASINGTON - An Arizona man who contends his former employer must rehire him because he has overcome the drug addiction that go...

SAN FRANCISCO - An investigator for District Attorney Terence Hallinan is accused of wrongly altering state Department of Moto...

VENTURA - The 1970s were busy years for Edward F. Brodie. After graduating as the valedictorian of his California Highway Patr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A day after he was recalled by the voters, Gov. Gray Davis appointed seven judges to trial courts around the s...

Column By Garry Abrams - For journalists and anyone else who loves a riveting, improbable tale, the good news is that Arnold S...

SACRAMENTO - Reaction in California's legal and legislative community to the election of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as govern...

LOS ANGELES - While state officials proclaimed the California recall one of the smoothest elections in 20 years, a leading civ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of retired partners, longtime staff and trustees of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have su...

LOS ANGELES - From East Los Angeles to Watts to Los Feliz, record numbers of Los Angeles County voters lined up to cast ballot...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently reconsidered ...

Forum Column - By Michael G. McGuinness and Adam J. Karr - Employers and employees are waiting to see what Gov. Gray Davis wil...

Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - Santa Rosa lawyer Peter Robinson has shut down his criminal law practice to conce...

SACRAMENTO - A bill passed in 2001 that would have allowed foreign-born residents to get drivers' licenses never took effect b...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, in apparent defiance of a court order, called in sick Tuesday, temporaril...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender for a man charged with capital murder was accused Tuesday of a conflict...

LOS ANGELES - A detached toilet seat with GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger's face pasted to the lid hung on the wall as ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel zeroed in Tuesday on the reach of the Constitution's Commerce Clause as central ...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan has reshuffled the top management in his office, announcing that Eumi Choi will take ...

WASHINGTON - Examining an important federalism issue, the Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to reinforce the power of fe...

LOS ANGELES - Century City attorney Stephen F. Rohde vividly recalls interviewing in 1970 for the character portion of the New...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan announced Tuesday that within the month he will ask the Board of Supervisor...

Column By Garry Abrams - California is now officially a movie. The state's voters on Tuesday elected to totally recall reality...