SAN JOSE - In a major legal victory that comes with a caveat, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday tossed out Ya...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court rejected Thursday an Army National Guardman's bid to block his extension of active duty...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fickle Contra Costa County murder defendant Susan Polk has decided to ditch high-profile defense attorney Dani...

PUC APPOINTMENT - San Francisco telecommunications lawyer Rachelle Chong was sworn in Thursday as the newest member of the Cal...

DISBARMENTS Hultgren, Jerry R. , Fresno Medeiros, Anthony David , Fresno Woods, Robert Brian , Woodland RESIGNATIONS Curtis, P...

SACRAMENTO - California's judiciary has one of its best shots in years at getting funds to build new courthouses and renovate...

Forum Column - By Harvey Gee - In his most recent book, "The 'Huddled Masses' Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights" (2004), Kevi...

Focus Column - By C.J. Alice Chen and Darren E. Donnelly - The U.S. Supreme Court will soon reconsider the long-lived standard...

LOS ANGELES - Jan Handzlik knew what he wanted to do when, as a child, he saw Raymond Burr play the role of a white-collar def...

SAN FRANCISCO - Craig Thompson, a nearly 30-year veteran of the California attorney general's office who specialized in enviro...

WASHINGTON - When Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. finishes his time in the hot seat before the Senate Judiciary Comm...

LOS ANGELES - Take it off. Take it all off! Show us some skin! Well, hallelujah, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, or...

By Douglas W. Kmiec - On the opening day of Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination hearings, the Democratic senators t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal appellate judges wrongly reversed a California man's death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wedne...

SAN FRANCISCO - John T. Noonan Jr. has penned more than 200 scholarly articles and book reviews and more than a dozen major bo...

DUBIOUS DISTINCTION -- Can San Francisco, known as the country's ultraliberal city, really be among the "meanest" to homeless ...

LOS ANGELES - Catherine J. Pratt, a deputy counsel for Los Angeles County, has been elected a Los Angeles County Superior Cour...

LOS ANGELES - Officials with the U.S. District Court for the Central District have created a new magistrate judge position to ...

SACRAMENTO - A proposed two-year moratorium on California's death penalty cleared its first legislative committee hurdle Tuesd...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Gov. Pete Wilson went after several state affirmative action programs, a group of pro-affirmative action ...

Forum Column - By Patrick L. Mattimore and Jean Amabile - No one was surprised when Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorne...

Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - Three weeks have now passed since the Bush administration's program of extra-judicial e...

Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of Zwirn v. Schweitzer (ordered published Dec. 14) the 2nd District Court ...

LOS ANGELES - The next generation of TV hardly would be recognizable to Philo Farnsworth, the farm boy who invented the medium...

LAS VEGAS - The president of a now-defunct Las Vegas broker-dealer company has agreed to pay $153 million, including a record ...

LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers has become the latest Los Angeles-based law firm to raise associate base salaries, accord...

SAN FRANCISCO - California prison inmates may have time on their hands, but they had better not waste any before filing habeas...

LOS ANGELES - A law firm that shut down in Los Angeles years ago and later closed its doors in Ohio still must answer to a mal...

SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a 12.5 percent raise for attorneys in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday revived efforts by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and San Francisco City ...