SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court dealt a blow Wednesday to a key portion of a 1996 federal anti-terrorism law by declar...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has agreed to pay $1 million plus $50,000 for counseling to a man who wa...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES - Cornerstone On Broadway LLC acquired 24,210 square feet of industrial property in the "Toy To...

LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers and police are still reeling from a recent $33 million jury award to a black surgeon injured by...

Forum Column - By Mark Goldowitz - On Sept. 6, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law SB515, which amends California's anti-SLAPP law...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - Appellate mediation has been a feature of the 9t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few lawyers can claim to have fought spam e-mails with as much vigor as David Kramer. The Wilson Sonsini Good...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously slapped down the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has asked a San Jose federal court to bestow legitimacy upon its profitable but highly controvers...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly stiffing the state's neediest population o...

SAN JOSE - For students from four South Bay counties, viewing California Supreme Court oral arguments in person Tuesday was a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a pivotal case involving the state's strict new ethics rules for arbitrators, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circ...

SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Casey Gwinn says he's tired of city-owned fax machines being flooded with junk-fax advertisements a...

Twenty-two years ago, Edward H. Drayer was the mayor of his hometown of Bellflower. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The compromise proposal to lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. from bankruptcy came in for some rough handling ...

SAN JOSE - If the state can require a Catholic charity to provide birth control to employees to advance women's rights, what'...

Forum Column - By Jonathan E. Stern - Philosopher George Santayana once said that those who cannot remember the past are conde...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BELLFLOWER - For $3.5 million, Landmark Equity of Irvine has purchased the 40-unit Woodruff Apartments at 1...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Alan M. Kindred - On March 4, in Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc. , 123 S.Ct. 1115...

Forum Column - By Michaelbrent Collings - "The peculiar thing is that Bush pitches the new rules as if he is curbing religious...

SAN FRANCISCO - A stressed-out Los Angeles parks department worker who exclaimed "I quit!" during a tense meeting with his bo...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that invalidated the d...

WASHINGTON - Michael A. Newdow, the Sacramento doctor with a law degree who is challenging the words "under God" in the Pledg...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will use a California case to clarify when prosecutors must defend their use of peremptory cha...

LOS ANGELES - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., the rhyming lawyer who became a household name by defending O.J. Simpson against murder...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan Lewis & Bockius is making a play for a slice of Pennie & Edmonds, less than one week after Jon...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court ducked the opportunity Monday to decide whether there is a constitutional right for an...

SACRAMENTO - A lawyer who fought for Sikh independence from India and who was gruesomely tortured by Indian police won the ri...

Column By Garry Abrams - When Roy Disney resigned from the board of directors of the Walt Disney Co. Sunday, he was mad as a w...

SAN JOSE - Diebold Inc., the manufacturer of electronic voting machines whose accuracy has been questioned, told a judge Mond...