Five judges at the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will investigate Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's conduct, ...

Thomas Willhite Says a Seat on the Court of Appeal Was Always His Goal ...

Attorney Jumps from MoFo to Mintz

For the third time in five years, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt Friday refused to sign off on the ...

Decisions that have lasting impact on a child's life are often made too quickly and with inadequate information, writes Justic...

The desire for a drug-free workplace is no longer sufficient grounds for a public employer to require pre-employment drug test...

The grim history of Cambodian refugees in the U.S. is perhaps the most graphic example of the failure of Washington's policy o...

William D. Stein, 67, who once described his appointment to the appellate court as "like dying and going to heaven," said he i...

A federal class action on behalf of cable TV customers across the country charges that the industry effectively runs a monopol...

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski recused himself from an ongoing obscenity trial and declared a mistrial Friday after a two-day fires...

Part-time bass guitarist and full-time Pomona Commissioner Anthony Peters tunes in to civil trials after years presiding in cr...

A former Upward Bound instructor and college adviser, Commissioner Michael Garcia brings those qualities of listening and conv...

With the mortgage market paralyzed and the housing market in the tank, selling a house is beginning to look like a bad idea to...

Orange County Superior Court judges on Friday elected Kim G. Dunning as presiding judge and Thomas J. Borris as assistant pres...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed four attorneys to counsel and advise various departments within the state government.

With the Supreme Court's blockbuster decision Thursday in favor of terrorism suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the ...

In October, Madonna signed a reported $120 million deal with Beverly Hills-based Live Nation Inc. that includes recordings, c...

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski Thursday called for an investigation into his own conduct following published reports that his priva...

Tom Campbell, the former Silicon Valley congressman and current dean of the business school at UC Berkeley, will join the facu...

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act amends a number of federal laws to restrict collection and use of genetic inform...

Litigator and ADR neutral Paul D. Gutierrez has been stationed on or near Pacific Avenue between Montgomery and Sansome street...

he high court scored a technical knockout against the Bush-Cheney strategy that has consistently ignored the right of the fede...

A conservative Christian group made an 11th-hour request to the California Court of Appeal Thursday to stop same-sex couples f...

Is a bowl of soup a meal? If so, is it sufficient payment for a pricey Armani suit? ...

A Superior Court judge has dismissed a challenge by two attorneys who claimed San Diego County's jury selection system underre...

The doll designer at the center of a fiercely litigated federal trial over rights to the popular Bratz line testified Thursday...

Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard Corp. has settled a patent dispute with Taiwan-based Acer Technology just before an Internatio...

Many copyright owners co-own their copyrights with others, or at least they thought so until a decision came down in a recent ...

Although American citizens held overseas by the military do have habeas corpus rights in U.S. courts, the Supreme Court in a u...

Web Exclusive - Benjamin Field, a Santa Clara County prosecutor accused of withholding evidence in a rape case, now faces char...