WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is starting its new term the way it finished the last one: deeply divided. ...

Web Exclusive - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to review a case challenging the San Francisco 49ers' policy ...

SAN JOSE - Google Inc. and other search engines can rest easy about Utah's new law that legal observers say would have effecti...

A bruising political battle is developing in Washington over whether Congress should grant legal immunity to the telecommunica...

WASHINGTON - In a delicate case at the intersection of international law, judicial power and presidential authority, the U.S. ...

As a judge, Jamoa A. Moberly has headed programs that encourage mediation and help drug defendants stay sober. ...

Municipal water districts and sellers would like more recycled water used in California, where a growing population and global...

Federal immigration officials forcibly drugged 56 immigrants during deportations carried out over the past year, according to ...

LOS ANGELES - Renowned disability law expert Eve Hill will leave her post as executive director of the Los Angeles-based Disab...

WASHINGTON - Handing a victory to federal prosecutors in a closely watched San Francisco gang case, the U.S. Supreme Court on ...

Forum Column - By Richard Hamar - Though using Scriptures can be illegal sometimes, an artful appeal to them can be the center...

WASHINGTON - In a victory for the Bush administration, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a German citizen's l...

LOS ANGELES - Steven G. Schulman, who made tens of millions of dollars litigating securities class actions, became the latest ...

LOS ANGELES - The attorney for 12 Nicaraguan men dropped his negligence claim against Dow Chemical and Dole Food on Tuesday, t...

Forum Column - By John W. Brooks - In the aftermath of Mattel's recent struggle with defective Chinese imports, companies work...

SAN FRANCISCO - A patent lawsuit against Google has broadened to encompass a major law firm, as well. ...

Chief Justice Ronald M. George broke ground Tuesday for construction of a new courthouse for Division 3 of the 4th District Co...

WASHINGTON - Investors had a rocky day Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court took up an eagerly awaited securities fraud case, a...

Focus Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - Despite years of contrary jurisprudence at the federal level, California courts remain h...

California bankruptcy courts have lost cases to more desirable venues in other parts of the nation in recent years. Judge Rand...

NASA scientists may have won the first round, but their effort to block the federal government from enforcing new background c...

Focus Column - By Brendan J. Fogarty - When multiple parties have a financial interest in the same piece of property, the cons...

LOS ANGELES - Three attorneys from the Armenian community in Los Angeles have secured $100,000 in seed money to help Loyola La...

Forum Column - By Kurt Opsahl - A Bush administration proposal to turn a blind eye toward the complicity of companies like AT...

Forum Column - By Nicole A. Ozer - Attempts to provide free Internet access to residents of Northern California will come wit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California logging giant Pacific Lumber Co., no stranger to controversy, stirred additional anger thi...

An effort by a young man to win political asylum after defecting from a gang in El Salvador has become a test case for undocum...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of one of the nation's biggest tax fraud trials, two California defense attorneys are busy trying t...

Judge Theodore M. Weathers and a friend dreamed up careers as jurists when they were first-year law students. They both follow...

Michelle Dennedy is chief privacy officer at Sun Microsystems. Companies worldwide employ 4,000 privacy officers, a position t...