SANTA ANA - The former media relations director for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was interviewed for nearly...

SAN JOSE - A Yellow Cab is just a yellow cab, a federal judge ruled Thursday in denying a Sacramento taxi company's trademark...

SACRAMENTO - The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the largest fine ever levied by the state's Fair Political P...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court once again wrestled Thursday with the question of whether police can search firs...

SAN FRANCISCO - An oil company will pay $620,000 to settle a Bay Area water pollution lawsuit revived last November when the ...

LOS ANGELES - The Fox network's notorious "Breaking the Magician's Code" television specials, which featured a masked magician...

SANTA ANA - Capping an exhaustive four-year prosecution, an Orange County jury Thursday found a Glendora attorney guilty of pe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers who once struggled to keep pace with initial public offerings are increasingly helping clien...

SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech advocates squared off with the entertainment industry Thursday in a widely watched trade secret d...

LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...

LOS ANGELES - The oldest active member of the State Bar, Robert M. McManigal, has died. He was 102. McManigal died in his slee...

LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...

SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...

Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - At the beginning of the 20th century, a progressive revolt added the rights of initiative, ref...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Bidart and Douglas M. Carasso - Are insurers subject to substantial punitive damages...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in the long-running Rampart police scandal, officers will be given "administrative immunity" ...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas Joseph Lannen, a former deputy federal public defender in Los Angeles and chief prosecutor for the Territ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Claralou LaBarge worked at Inland Counties Legal Services before retiring in 1995. But, in the eight ye...

SAN FRANCISCO - If he were president, U.S. Senator John Edwards would create an independent office to ensure that law enforce...

WASHINGTON - Gathering Wednesday at an unusual news media event at the Supreme Court, four members of the court and the leader...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has reversed two of three convictions in a brutal Los Angeles murder, saying that the defe...

SAN JOSE - Lawyers for the state and the first convicted child molester scheduled to be released under the state's Sexually V...

Column by Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh and Ruby the elephant have one legal thing in common. The animals recently made headl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Reeling from the threat of unprecedented budget cuts, California court officials are scouring every revenue s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court sounded deeply troubled Wednesday that police officers are still being trained t...

LOS ANGELES - David N. Eagleson, a Long Beach attorney who rose through the state's judicial system to become a state Supreme ...

SANTA CRUZ - Though some judges dread family law, Samuel S. Stevens is not among them. The judge was so content during his thr...

Question Three - Crimes/Evidence - Don was a passenger in Vic's car. While driving in a desolate mountain area, Vic stopped an...

Question Five - Constitutional Law - Paul, a student at Rural State University ("Rural"), wishes to sue Rural, a public school...

Question Two - Real Property Trusts - Olga, a widow, owned Blackacre, a lakeside lot and cottage. On her 70th birthday, she ha...