The charged debate over Internet 'freedom' and copyright law is alive and well in the courts. By Robert G. Badal and Emily S. ...

The state Supreme Court Tuesday seemed ready to apply a harmless-error test to a judge's gag order that prevented a defense la...

The North Coast Rivers Alliance and others are facing off against Westland's Water District, the state's largest irrigation di...

The state judicial watchdog agency on Tuesday publicly admonished Trinity County Superior Court Judge Anthony C. Edwards for t...

Publisher William A. Rutter who founded the legal publication the Rutter Group has died. He was 83. ...

Former 'master settlement judge' Karl Jaeger dies. ...

San Diego-based Illumina Inc.'s board of directors voted unanimously Tuesday to reject Roche Holding Ltd.'s $5.7 billion bid t...

Last week's opening of Los Angeles County's juvenile dependency courts to the press and public has led to legal action from ch...

The Los Angeles city attorney's office has been less than eager to disclose the details of its contingency-fee arrangement wit...

California Attorney General Kamala Harris continues to try to hammer out more favorable terms on behalf of the state's residen...

The question is not whether abused children will be harmed, but how many and how badly they will be retraumatized. By William ...

A California appellate court's decision Monday invalidating some sampling methods used in employment class actions could have ...

Oracle Corp. has rolled the dice in a long-running copyright infringement suit against its nemesis SAP AG by rejecting a North...

As the groundwork is laid for litigation stemming from alleged sexual abuse at Miramonte Elementary School, the looming legal ...

Judge Scott C. Clarkson got an early jump on bankruptcy law by helping to revamp it in 1977.

Judge Judy Hersher, a Shakespeare scholar, hopes to make the world a better place through her work.

In an unprecedented move to clear its immigration backlog, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday ordered federal...

The 9th Circuit's much-anticipated ruling on the constitutionality of Prop. 8, California's same-sex marriage ban, will be pos...

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Energy Department adequately analyzed the risk of a terrorist att...

A group of 260 bank employees who said U.S. Bank misclassified them as outside sales personnel should not have received class...

A group of hot-air balloonists who fought an olive farm's lawsuit accusing them of flying too low over its Riverside County co...

How a quest to overtake Volkswagon went sour. By Jonathan Michaels of the Michaels Law Group ...

Two solar organizations filed a lawsuit against Riverside County on Monday, alleging a recently passed fee on large-scale sola...

Under the patent reform law, generic drug manufacturers can challenge patents for new brand-name medicines much earlier than t...

Google's new privacy policy brings wave of negative coverage, causing some to wonder about the company's strategy. By Ronald R...

After more than 60 years of operation, a law library in San Francisco's Financial District is closing due to a drop in funding...

Poorly drafted fine print disclosures are tailor-made for class action treatment. By Daniel K. Slaughter of Stein & Lubin ...

Bank of America may be close to shaking off the hangover resulting from its 2008 purchase of home loan giant Countrywide Finan...

California Attorney General Kamala Harris moved closer to signing the state onto a multistate settlement that would force five...