SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and one of its biggest creditors scoffed at Tower Snow Jr.'s clai...

SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long for the lawyers suing the makers of a popular anti-depressant over allegedly dangerous sid...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles homeowner is out of luck in trying to collect on his insurance policy for landslide damage cause...

SAN DIEGO - After the last people who lived in Hotel San Diego shuffled away, a corner liquor store that sold many of them hal...

SAN FRANCISCO - The meat industry has launched a preventive legal assault on efforts that could require consumer warnings abo...

LOS ANGELES - They don't take a lot of breaks in Department F at the Pomona South Courthouse. It would be like pulling the pl...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury on Thursday acquitted two Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs of seven counts of beating and inju...

INDUSTRIAL FULLERTON - Dalton Enterprises purchased a 34,000-square-foot industrial building at 1900 Raymer from Dragon Prope...

Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - The 19th century military theorist Karl von Clausewitz famously commented that war "is...

Letter to the Editor - All right, I admit to being a hopelessly old-fashioned pedant, but still ... I've been troubled of late...

Letter to the Editor - The article "Justice System Encourages False Claims of Domestic Violence" (April 15 Daily Journal) was ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Sacramento Public Defender Paulino G. Duran has hired former San Bernardino Public Defender John Roth, who re...

SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila was physically and emotionally abused by an alcoholic father who sexually molested his daughters,...

NAPA - Other judicial officers have risen from blue-collar backgrounds, but Napa County Superior Court Commissioner Michael S...

Column - By Garry Abrams - There's a growing national consensus that Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride with the big, big ey...

LOS ANGELES - Gabriela Jaramillo was stunned when LAPD officers raided her Hancock Park medical-marijuana dispensary, called h...

SAN JOSE - Paula Kuty, Santa Clara County's chief assistant district attorney and the behind-the-scenes "glue" of the office, ...

INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - Carlsbad Distribution LLC, c/o RJ Realty Investors, purchased a 56,348-square-foot industrial building a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Critics of an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal Tuesday sought help from an international trade panel in...

SAN BERNARDINO - Saying they are "declaring war on gangs," the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors approved funds Tuesday to h...

SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego men contesting the failure to count 5,500 ballots cast for write-in candidate Donna Frye in the Nov...

LOS ANGELES - Angela Agrusa, the former coordinator of Baker & Hostetler's California litigation practice, jumped to Los ...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Tuesday said prospective jurors "must set aside" how they feel about San Diego's contentious fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Senior U.S. District Judge Fern Smith, a Reagan appointee who joined San Francisco's federal bench in 1988, h...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin McKenney's mother raised her two sons alone after her husband died w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Did a male Sacramento County building inspector have a "Me Tarzan, you Jane" gender bias against a female con...

SANTA ANA - Attorneys representing the man convicted of murdering 5-year-old Samantha Runnion have a tall order to convince ju...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed three of five counts in a $9 million palimony suit a former pi...

SACRAMENTO - An open-government advocate said Tuesday the Judicial Council craftily agreed to release records and audit resul...

LOS ANGELES - A former Morgan Stanley vice president has filed a wrongful termination suit against the financial bellwether, ...