SACRAMENTO - Hundreds of angry employees of the Sacramento Superior Court walked off their jobs Tuesday, staging a rowdy prote...

WASHINGTON - If Bush administration officials are found to have leaked the identity of a CIA operative married to a prominent ...

LOS ANGELES - Bing Crosby wasn't just a song-and-dance man. He was also a singing and dancing business, a state appellate cour...

SAN FRANCISCO - Through his two full terms in office, the issue of domestic violence has been a thorn in the side of San Franc...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a rancorous 9-3 decision, a federal appeals court overturned its own 1998 landmark ruling Tuesday and allow...

LOS ANGELES - No one seems to know for sure how the building that houses the Los Angeles County Mental Health Court came to be...

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Vincent H. Okamoto took his 8-year-old son, Darby, on a pilg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sixteen months after the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for patent owners to go after copycat prod...

Forum Column - By W. Scott Snowden and Richard A. Bennett - The Judicial Council soon will act on a number of proposals presen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Denying California prisoners interest on their inmate trust accounts violates the Fifth Amendment's "takings"...

SAN FRANCISCO - At first blush, Big Tobacco appears to have won a big victory in last week's appellate court decision slashin...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By David A. Ossentjuk and William M. Hensley - In a decision probably influenced by the curr...

SACRAMENTO - Physical and financial abuse of elderly Californians, including trust mills involving attorneys, are the target o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Having forced out City Attorney Malcolm Hunter after a quarter-century on the job, the Richmond city council p...

OAKLAND - Lawyers at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean are finding environmental consciousness is good for business. ...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Cruz County judge Monday rejected a legal challenge to efforts by prosecutors to prevent grand jury witness...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Monday confirmed San Francisco Superior Court Judge Carlos T. Bea for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circui...

SAN FRANCISCO - Civil litigator Leslie G. Landau, managing partner of the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen, was appoi...

Column By Garry Abrams - Hanging up on a telemarketer has become a First Amendment issue. So one of the few innocent pleasures...

LOS ANGELES - In a potentially significant ruling, an appellate court last week barred an Ohio-based bicycle maker from submit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Within the past few years, lawyers have forced companies accused of fouling municipal drinking water supplies ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside narcotics detective who authorities say allowed his informants to rip off drug dealers has been reprim...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has returned an $8 million judgment against Stanford Hospital and the Palo Alto Medical ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Denying California prisoners interest on their inmate trust accounts violates the Fifth Amendment's "takings" ...

BY MARCI WORMSER Special to the CREJ Large retailers are flocking to Palmdale in anticipation of growth in the Antelope Valle...

BY DENNIS J. OPATRNY Special to CREJ In a significant victory for the disabled, including people with AIDS, the 9th U.S. Circ...

Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc. has purchased its Foster City campus for $123 million. Gilead acquired 16 buildings...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor Paris has the Champs-Elysees. New York has Rockefeller Center. And now, Los Angeles ...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Apartment managers in California are now in season for Proposition 65 bounty hunters. Lawyers...

By Stefanie Knapp A U.S. District Court in Houston tossed out four remaining patent infringement claims against Intergraph Co...