LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court did not seem terribly troubled Tuesday that two Texas blues-rock musicians were par...

WASHINGTON - Los Angles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl - a Bush administration nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...

LOS ANGELES - A taxpayer group's effort to shut down state government in the event of a budget impasse this summer met with sk...

SACRAMENTO - A package of 12 Republican bills meant to protect children from sexual predators and pornographers was decimated...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of seven jurors who publicly apologized for voting to convict medical marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal has s...

RIVERSIDE - Deputy District Attorney Sara Danville, who won four first-degree murder convictions last year, has been named Riv...

VICTORVILLE - Services have been held for John A. Delatore, a retired civil attorney known as an aggressive litigator who didn...

SAN FRANCISCO - Complaints against California state judges rose slightly during the year 2002, according the annual report of...

SAN FRANCISCO - If the U.S. House of Representatives gets its way, the federal government may have to expand its prison system...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Marin County judge has reduced to $5 million a punitive damages jury award of $30 million against UnumProvi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has settled the $45 million defamation lawsuit filed against it by former partner Frode Je...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inconsistency is in the eye of the beholder. For every defense lawyer's complaint about shameless double-speak...

LOS ANGELES - A boom in immigrant signups for the Iraqi invasion, after an executive order greased the wheels for enlistees to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two boys kill a pizza delivery guy just for the fun of it. When prosecutors can't prove which one fired the le...

LOS ANGELES - Lower minority enrollments at California-run law schools could foreshadow the future of state-run law schools na...

WASHINGTON - Hearing its most important case in 25 years on the highly charged issue of race, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ind...

DIXON - The John H. Olson Family Limited Trust purchased an 11,520-square-foot building at 1520 N. Lincoln St. (and occupied ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, there have been stories of professional athletes and people who are simply tryin...

Forum Column - By Susan G. Millmann - Now there is factual evidence that confirms what legal aid attorneys have known anecdota...

Focus Column - Securities Law - By M. Chapman Findlay, David R. Garcia and G. Michael Phillips - Some 15 years ago, the U.S. S...

LOS ANGELES - The public could get its first close view today of the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese's response to dema...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled, 7-2, that debtors who owe money as the result of settling a fraud suit against...

SAN BERNARDINO - Larry Komar wasn't on a mission to make new law. The Lake Arrowhead man says he just wanted to find out why t...

Column By Garry Abrams - Some eternities are shorter than others. For instance, I never expected a gaggle of consumer and muni...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge dismissed a bid by a conservative lawyer to dismantle a committee that recommends to President B...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government Monday gave up its legal fight to muzzle California on matters regarding the extension ...

LOS ANGELES - A day after they had pronounced the case "closed," police have reopened an investigation into the murder-suicide...

LOS ANGELES -The corridor outside Justice Judith Ashmann-Gerst's chambers is lined with 8-by-11 photos of the 2nd District Cou...

MONTEREY - Presiding Judge Terrance Duncan was understandably apprehensive when he got word that the jury in a recent rape cas...

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's commerce and finance group splintered as the firm dissolved last month, with members of the ...