SAN FRANCISCO - In a small defeat for Microsoft, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ordered the software giant Thursda...

SACRAMENTO - The United Farm Workers union is riding high these days with Gray Davis in the governor's office. The election o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The future of the State Bar of California currently lies in the hands of two men, and the bar's Board of Gove...

During a 1980 court hearing on spousal support, a trial judge advised Ida Schaffer that to become self-sufficient she might w...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice is seeking a budget of $21 billion for fiscal year 2000, a $371 million increase over ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected another challenge to California's "reasonable doubt" instr...

SEATTLE - The state Supreme Court has twice rejected a proposed rule to bar attorneys from having sexual relations with their...

SAN FRANCISCO - Easy access to medical records has patients worried that information about their diagnosis and treatment will...

SACRAMENTO - Robert Coyle is the first to admit architecture was never his forte. But now the senior federal judge is conside...

SAN FRANCISCO - Deploring a growing "culture of exclusion and division," U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson spoke out W...

Some East Coast law firms, anticipating an economic downturn in 2000, are already expanding their bankruptcy practice groups....

In response to a judge's ruling that Monrovia's daytime curfew for school-age children contradicts California's truancy law, ...

A Los Angeles County supervisor wants to rescind the county counsel's authority to approve contracts with outside counsel and...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office said it will seek the death penalty against Walter "Pierre" Rausini, who is accuse...

A Southwestern University School of Law graduate has filed suit against her long-lost father, claiming he reneged on his prom...

DENVER - Denver divorce lawyer Tony Sturniolo is tired of the state's no-fault divorce laws. That's why Sturniolo and a handf...

SAN JOSE - When Stanford University law professor Deborah Rhode was appointed last summer as a Democratic counsel to the Hous...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office Friday refuted suggestions made in open court by one of its own deputies th...

SAN FRANCISCO - David E. Nelson, a guiding force in the growth of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, died Jan. 22 in Be...

SACRAMENTO - Appointed in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, this city's first residing federal judge held court on the...

A divided state appeal panel has ruled that bystanders who witnessed - but were not injured by - a fatal airplane crash canno...

MURRIETA - As the cracks in her concrete patio and block retaining wall widen, Murrieta resident Ossi Wells is wondering how ...

A federal judge handed actor Dustin Hoffman a "Tootsie" roll Thursday by awarding the Oscar-winning movie star $1.5 million i...

A San Luis Obispo attorney whose obstruction of justice and perjury convictions were overturned on appeal has sued the two Lo...

SAN JOSE - Controversial legislation to grant copyright protection to databases - including court-decision databases - not cu...

Two units of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office have filed separate cases alleging antitrust violations and br...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association will join a friend of the court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Louisi...

When the founders of Bet Tzedek Legal Services started the organization more than two decades ago, they envisioned serving cl...

An Inland Empire man has agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor federal criminal civil rights violations stemming from hateful...

VENTURA - Ron Johnson and Jason Hoskins were both fathers and they both died after a lethal brew of toxic gases and water eru...