Forum Column - By Reza Dibadj - The excesses of the economic bubble of the late 1990s, which featured cooked accounting statem...

Proposition 54, the so-called Racial Privacy Initiative, is based on the misguided notion that ignorance is better than knowle...

Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - You might think the long-anticipated indictment of Santa Clara County Superior Court...

SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Aaron Persky and former Deputy County Counsel Carrie A. Zepeda wer...

LOS ANGELES - A trial pitting Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe against the founders of the chic Earl Jean Inc. company sett...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take up the case of a convicted methamphetamine maker ordered...

SAN BERNARDINO - In an unusually large personal injury verdict, a San Bernardino Superior Court jury Tuesday awarded $31 milli...

SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Steven H. Rodda's family goes back nearly 150 years in Sacramento, and Rodda is about as wel...

LOS ANGELES - The recording industry's decision to sue 261 individuals for sharing files online grabbed the spotlight this mon...

LOS ANGELES - The Internet invasion has reached its final frontier - the lofty terrain of appellate-law practice. A brief file...

Column By Garry Abrams - That wild and crazy guy, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, keeps finding ways to make people so ma...

SACRAMENTO - The success of a lawsuit filed earlier this week against California's new domestic partnership law likely will de...

SAN FRANCISCO - The campaign for district attorney is getting interesting. Incumbent Terence Hallinan has opened a 9-point lea...

SACRAMENTO - The Pacific Legal Foundation filed a suit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a key element of the sta...

Forum Column - By Antonio R. Sarabia II - Victims of crime should be encouraged to provide not only information but also other...

During the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's televised recall hearing Tuesday, Judge Alex Kozinski drew laughs when he confi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The appeals over the recall election may be over, but a close recall election and numerous disputed punch-car...

Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Stephen F. Rohde - Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Sixth Amendment a...

WASHINGTON - The decision to end litigation challenging California's Oct. 7 recall election rather than to seek Supreme Court...

SAN DIEGO - California consumers who just want a tidy toilet are getting taken to the cleaners themselves because powerful che...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis Tuesday appointed Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender Drew E. Edwards and Pasadena tria...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley's office has urged appellate judges to unseal a secret ruling on church files tha...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis had little choice but to sign into law new provisions offering workers greater protections agains...

SAN FRANCISCO - Litigation against Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton on allegations its legal advice helped to perpetuate ...

SAN DIEGO - Private services have been held for a former professor at the University of San Diego School of Law who is recogni...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding that Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde "cannot or will not conform his behavior to...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser has been indicted on a felony count of conspiracy and eight ...

LOS ANGELES - During the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's televised recall hearing Tuesday, Judge Alex Kozinski drew laughs ...

WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday voted unanimously to support repeal of a controversial ne...

Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - California's capital appeals backlog has finally stopped growing. For the first time...