A Norco grandmother who tried to block a group home for developmentally disabled women is suing state housing authorities, cla...

Despite serving on a three-judge panel with no dissenting members, J. Clifford Wallace has called for en banc review of circui...

California Attorney General Jerry Brown, joining a coalition of states and environmental groups, sued the federal Environmenta...

The city of Half Moon Bay will allow a developer to build on contested land under a settlement that ends a 15-year legal battl...

The en banc business is booming at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals four months after Alex Kozinski became chief judge. ...

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L.A. City Council is considering a housing ordinance regulating use of residential hotels. Among the critics of the oridinance...

U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie, who died March 25, sat on the federal bench for a quarter century. His colleagues will re...

Clients accusing a high-priced dating service of defrauding them don't have to arbitrate their dispute, a state appeals court ...

Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - Attorneys need to acknowledge that client-review sites and online lawyer rankings are the wav...

State Attorney General Jerry Brown will join dozens of states and environmental groups in suing the federal Environmental Prot...

A unanimous 9th Circuit panel Tuesday reversed a Los Angeles trial judge and allowed a whistle-blower nurse to sue Centinela H...

With a major patent reform bill set for a vote in the Senate within weeks, leading lawmakers are struggling to reach a comprom...

Labor and employment attorney Karen Kubin has left Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's San Francisco office to become a partn...

A federal judge in Los Angeles significantly reduced the chances that Countrywide executives will have to give up hundreds of ...

The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Lawyers Guild will honor labor and civil rights attorney David Borgen on Ap...

Although state Sen. Carole Migden can spend funds from an old campaign on a tight race for re-election, a federal magistrate j...

Along with illegally wiretapping phone calls, murder was another service offered by notorious private investigator Anthony Pel...

A Virginia federal judge on Tuesday wiped out new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules that were intended to curtail the num...

Whether coming back from a devastating leg injury or gathering varied experience for her bench role, Lancaster Judge Elena J. ...

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Litigator David Ezra has written a book in which he attempts to rebut all the claims and "circumstantial evidence" that Barry ...

Los Angeles Commissioner Glenda Veasey balances litigants' need to be heard with maintaining firm control of her courtroom. ...

With business relations between the United States and China expanding, Chinese legal groups are reaching out to learn more abo...

Forum Column - By Jonathan Handel - Lawyers should know the ropes of dealing with reporters in order to further both parties' ...

Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - Opting out of class actions and going it alone can sometimes yield bigger payouts for large i...

The California Supreme Court today will examine whether two of Santa Barbara County's top prosecutors crossed the line when th...

Cementing a big win for California workers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a state Supreme Court ruling th...

Navy Reserve Officer Thomas Johnston has returned from a tour of duty in Iraq to a less dangerous life as a plaitiffs' lawyer ...

Five years after his retirement, a Sacramento prosecutor is himself facing charges, accused of withholding evidence that could...