LODI - Any judge who's been on the bench for awhile has handled one memorably bizarre matter. But it would be hard to top the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judges Richard McAdams of Santa Cruz and Betty Dawson of Merced have won quick and unanimous confirmation as j...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California will be welcoming two new judges after they were ...

NEWPORT BEACH - Judge Brett London remembers his first big lesson in the axiom "For every action, there is a reaction." It was...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nobody should tell 8-year-old Nicholas H. that the man who houses him, feeds him and clothes him is not his bi...

SAN FRANCISCO - California, the state with the nation's dirtiest air and some of the toughest restrictions on air pollution, a...

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

BY ERIK CUMMINS Special to CREJ Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's former landlords filed a petition Sept. 17 in U.S. Bankrupt...

Forum Column - By Milton E. Olin Jr. - On Sept. 8, the principal members of the Recording Industry Association of America - AO...

Employment Column - By Robert S. Blumberg - While it is generally accepted that an applicant's résumé will contain a certain a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors used the cooperation of a colleague to criminally charge a former partner at Ernst & ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Daniel M. Becker - The completion of the sequence of the human genome already has pr...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has ordered a private judge to explain why he sealed his ruling on whether the Archdiocese of L...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco federal public defender Barry J. Portman has been reappointed to a new four-year term as...

WASHINGTON - State Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, recently nominated to the federal appellate bench by President B...

LOS ANGELES - A school district shouldn't be liable for the emotional distress of the parents of a student molested by one of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - First it was $50 million. Then $25 million. Now $9 million. Punitive damages in a high-profile San Francisco t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long-time investigator testified Thursday that top prison management repeatedly succumbed to pressure by the...

LOS ANGELES - Two Nazi concentration camp survivors filed suit in Los Angeles Thursday, claiming an international insurance co...

LOS ANGELES - A Westwood man accused of threatening a Los Angeles Times reporter by leaving a dead fish on her car windshield ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors used the cooperation of a colleague Thursday to criminally charge a former partner at Erns...

LOS ANGELES - "Goin' with the flow isn't a defense on the freeway." That's what Commissioner Stanford E. Reichert said one rec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney Suzanne G. Ramos was appointed Thursday to the San Francisco Superior Court, the first...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been nearly seven years since San Francisco attorney Dennis Natali was shot to death in his BMW. His kill...

RIVERSIDE - Superior Court judges have chosen a prosecutor and a civil research attorney to sit as commissioners. Deputy Distr...

WASHINGTON - Three California federal judicial nominees received unanimous support from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thur...

LOS ANGELES - With the recall election less than two weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis' push to appoint as many judges as he can mov...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday dismissed the majority of racketeering and fraud claims brought by an NBA player aga...

Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - For years, the courts have stripped due process rights from aliens, who ...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Martin Quinn - During mediation of a claim for disability-insurance benefit...