LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake is asking the judge in his upcoming murder trial to take immediate testimony from a witness w...

SANTA ANA - Just a day after Orange County Superior Court employees picketed the Central Justice Center, a union official said...

SAN BERNARDINO - Two San Bernardino brothers molested by their Little League Baseball coach when they were teens filed a propo...

LOS ANGELES - For one night each summer, an organization founded to assist the region's disadvantaged elderly population becom...

SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has succeeded in moving along a bill banning secret settlements in e...

LOS ANGELES - Students at elementary schools in the Marin County city of Novato usually spend their school days learning their...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has tossed out on free speech grounds a lawsuit filed by the nation's largest ir...

Column By Garry Abrams - Drake Ward is doing his part to keep the system on its toes. Ward's prolonged, persistent and continu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. demanded Wednesday that state utility regulators take an all-or-nothing approac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyer Bill Fazio didn't hold back in April as he assessed District Attorney Terence Hallinan's handli...

Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick Just as the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts have ...

Forum Column By Joel Benoliel The article "Taming the Beast" (Michael M. Berger, Forum, May 2) purported to tell the story of...

Forum Column By Jay Sekulow The U.S. Supreme Court applied sound logic and common sense when it upheld the Children's Interne...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service for Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart is scheduled for 4 p.m. today at ...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could end 14 years of litigation, the Simi Valley Unified School District lost its fourth appe...

SACRAMENTO - Two state legislative committees approved bills Tuesday that proponents said would tweak California's unfair com...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday for the first time exercised its new power to appoint the ...

WASHINGTON - A Senate vote is scheduled today on U.S. Court of Federal Claims nominee Victor J. Wolski, who has been strongly...

SAN JOSE - In a major victory for the lead paint industry, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed out a lawsuit filed by B...

SAN FRANCISCO - To hear the U.S. government tell it, the Europeans want to take away your trusty green can of Kraft Parmesan ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Harry Wartnick, a pioneer in asbestos litigation, died Monday after a long history of heart problems...

SANTA ANA - As the mother of a teenager who soon will drive and with the memory of her own spotty record during her youthful ...

LOS ANGELES - Officials said Tuesday they are seeking lesser charges against alleged high-powered Mexican drug lords in an ef...

SACRAMENTO - Stepping up efforts to curb alleged abuses of California's unfair business practices law, state Attorney General...

SAN DIEGO - Elaine is a woman with a past. And it almost cost her her job. The child-care worker in San Diego ran afoul of th...

VISTA - When Steven R. Denton became a Superior Court judge two years ago after decades as a civil litigator, he was assigned ...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Developments and advances in fertility s...

Forum Column - By Mary L. Smith - The U.S. Supreme Court just reaffirmed that equal opportunity in higher education remains ce...

LOS ANGELES - A doctor who says he lost his medical practice as a result of a television expos can sue the station for secretl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expenses and fees for attorneys and consultants in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company topped $100 million ...