An 88-year-old man whose car careened into a pedestrian farmer's market, killing 10 and injuring 63, pleaded not guilty Wednes...
LOS ANGELES - The San Gabriel Valley School District's middle and high schools took runner-up honors at the Constitutional Ri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal appellate judges Wednesday cleared procedural hurdles that have helped to stall price-fixing lawsuits...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County jury awarded a Riverside woman $8.9 million Wednesday for physical and psychological injuries she...
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Roberta Helene Kyman, who graduated from law school, co-founded a law firm and became...
SAN FRANCISCO - During the many years Timothy Reardon played softball for the dominant team in San Francisco's recreational l...
SAN FRANCISCO - The controversy over alleged exclusion of Jews and black women from some Alameda County juries reared its hea...
Constitutional Law
Court Considers Case on Agricultural Promotion Program
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether the government could compel beef producers to fund the pro-beef...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego City Council certified the results of last month's hotly contested mayoral election on Wednesday and...
SAN FRANCISCO - A telecommunications company pleaded guilty to two felonies Wednesday for defrauding the federal government o...
Litigation
Commercial Litigator Takes Over MoFo's Palo Alto Office
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Ken Kuwayti, a commercial litigation attorney with an emphasis in intellectual property and securities matter...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday took back a powerful weapon that a federal appeals court decision had given tradem...
SAN FRANCISCO - Capital defense lawyers gathered in San Francisco Wednesday to compare notes as state appellate courts grappl...
Judges and Judiciary
Good Old Moola Drives Web Bookie's Interest in Supreme Court Stakes
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - A Costa Rica-based online sports book this week began taking bets on potential nominees to the U.S....
LOS ANGELES - Devallis Rutledge, a former high-ranking Orange County prosecutor who has argued that police officers should con...
Judges and Judiciary
High-Court Oral Argument May Have Overstayed Its Welcome
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Glenn Smith - The serious medical problems of Chief Justice William Rehnquist have focused attention on a po...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Bank Regulators Must Not Eviscerate Federal Community Reinvestment Act
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert E. Rubin and Michael Rubinger - For 25 years, a little-known federal law has helped low-income commun...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Jordan S. Stanzler - Insurance policies that provide "defense within limits" present inheren...
Forum Column - By Richard C. Hsu and Edwin P. Ching - Recent news about pharmaceutical firm Merck included a report that the c...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared ready to strike down a Tax Court rule that keeps secret from the p...
SAN DIEGO - The California Supreme Court appeared deeply troubled Tuesday that a Los Angeles prosecutor managed to win two de...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was four weddings and a professional funeral for the career of former San Mateo County Commissioner Clark L...
LOS ANGELES - The former mayor of Compton, serving a three-year sentence following his conviction on felony corruption charge...
SAN JOSE - A Mountain View company that makes a device allowing consumers to copy DVDs and store them permanently was sued Tu...
INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - SSR Realty Advisors sold Anaheim Tech Center, a 245,503-square-foot industrial park located at 950 and 95...
WASHINGTON - Justices of the Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of claims that state regulators in Michigan and New Y...
SACRAMENTO - Attorneys who represent injured workers released a study Tuesday that concludes the governor's proposed reforms ...
Administrative/Regulatory
ACLU Says State DNA Law Violates the 4th Amendment
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Declaring it's time "to draw the line," the American Civil Liberties Union filed a constitutional challenge T...
SAN DIEGO - State appellate justices moved incumbent Dick Murphy back into the mayor's chair Tuesday, lifting a court order th...
SAN DIEGO - Over strenuous objections from a state prosecutor, the California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to reopen t...