SAN BERNARDINO - In a judgment hailed as the largest in the state in a priest sex abuse case, a San Bernardino Superior Court ...

LOS ANGELES - Another violent incident at the Lompoc federal penitentiary is heightening tensions between the location's corre...

WOODLAND - First, there were the snake boys. They were just two college-age dudes who happened to have a whole bunch of snakes...

Forum Column - By Douglas W. Kmiec - Congress is considering changes to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In these difficult econ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury in Miami on Wednesday gave $4 million to the Bay Area family of a Chilean man who was tortured...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Jonathan A. Loeb - Since September, California courts no longer instruct juries about such cour...

WASHINGTON - Around 2 p.m. on July 15, 1998, as Lashawn Lowell Banks was taking a shower in his North Las Vegas apartment, lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an apparent first for the timber industry, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that ditches and cul...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - On Sept. 9, a federal court ruled that the representatives of the thousands...

Forum Column - By Ellen S. Podgor - Attorney General John Ashcroft continues to seize power because he does not trust criminal...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday praised yet another California nominee for a U.S. District Court judg...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday announced it will hold a confirmation hearing Oct. 22 for state Supre...

LOS ANGELES - Because voters generally agree that keeping children in school is a good idea, truancy enforcement has long been...

LOS ANGELES - More than 400 Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies called in sick Wednesday, shutting down courthouses in Santa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Miami jury Wednesday awarded $4 million to the Bay Area family of a Chilean man who was tortured and killed...

LOS ANGELES - As contentious labor disputes engulf Southern California, the companies, county agencies and unions caught in th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lying in cyberspace just got riskier. Internet service providers as well as individual users will now be liab...

LOS ANGELES - Kathleen Sullivan, the dean of Stanford Law School since 1999, will step down from her post in September. Sulliv...

LOS ANGELES - Consumer activists contend a new state law will lead to illegal surcharges for automobile drivers who lack proof...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ditches and culverts that send muddy runoff pouring off logging roads and into nearby streams are subject to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kathleen Sullivan, a noted constitutional law scholar, will step down as dean of Stanford Law School next yea...

Column By Garry Abrams California, a bottomless morass of litigious special-interest groups and individuals, continued to cla...

SAN FRANCISCO - The campaign rhetoric of Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has crept into the San Francisco campaign for distr...

WASHINGTON - Around 2 p.m. on July 15, 1998, as Lashawn Lowell Banks was taking a shower in his North Las Vegas apartment, loc...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The moment that embattled conservative talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh admitted that h...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Robert C. Barnes - Just when Californians thought that the state's fiscal health couldn't ge...

Santa Rosa lawyer Peter Robinson has shut down his criminal law practice to defend a Rwandan official in Arusha, Tanzania, wh...

WASHINGTON - Taking another plunge into the world of online pornography, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review the co...

Forum Column - By Barbara S. Blinderman - It's a question of values. If an attorney gets paid for his efforts, it's because so...