SAN FRANCISCO - To save Scott Peterson's life when the jury returns Nov. 22 to decide whether he should be put to death for t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A third trial of a lawsuit brought by protesters whose faces were swabbed with pepper spray during anti-loggi...

WASHINGTON - In his first public remarks since resigning as attorney general, an impassioned John Ashcroft said Friday that ju...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has ordered the state attorney general's office to turn over internal records to a loca...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - Seventeen years ago, the California Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a 14-year-old boy co...

RIVERSIDE - Add the lowly pencil to the state's list of deadly weapons. In the first ruling of its kind, a California appellat...

SAN FRANCISCO - By age 80, many attorneys have retired. Gordon C. George is just getting started. The Danville resident was a...

SACRAMENTO - Civics class was straightforward if boring when Thomas A. "Tac" Craven was in high school. The teacher fed him f...

INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Corinthian Investors LTD II has sold a 16,478-square-foot industrial building at 9 Marconi for $2.2 millio...

SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers may be on a roll. A tort-reform minded president was re-elected this month. Californians overwhel...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Ethan Friedman - Public agencies throughout the state are permitted to deduct environmental c...

Column Employment - Law By Rod M. Fliegel and Tara Bedeau -Employment litigators are all too familiar with the following refra...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - In the last election, Proposition 66, a ballot initiative that would have reformed the sta...

LOS ANGELES - Dale Fischer doesn't like it when attorneys take potshots at each other in written motions. Gary Klausner never ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Randolf Rice has regained consciousness and was able to respond to a verba...

PASADENA - Swept off the shelves by reports linking it to thousands of deaths, Vioxx would seem to be easy pickings for the cr...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's mental health treatment court will expand in January to cover more criminal defendants - incl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A plan to offer sweeter pensions to San Francisco prosecutors and public defenders could signal the beginning...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County judge has ruled that a family that owns nearly one-third of the Oakland Raiders is a "partn...

INDUSTRIAL OTAY MESA - Managing GP Inc. has purchased three finished industrial lots 4, 5 and 6 totaling 18 acres in the Gatew...

LOS ANGELES - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon catapulted Attorney General John Ashcr...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - It's hard to overstate the gravity of the threat to the press posed by the recent flurry of s...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Politics and employment law have at least two things in common: The...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether a man sued for allegedly infectin...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed deep concern that a California inmate - and perhaps as many as ...

LOS ANGELES - Rejecting defense warnings that pretrial publicity would deny Phil Spector a fair trial, a judge Wednesday order...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Randolf Rice remained in critical condition Wednesday in a Redwood City ho...

LOS ANGELES - A child who allegedly was molested in a foster home can sue Los Angeles County long after the six-month statute...

SACRAMENTO - Attorneys representing injured workers petitioned an appellate court Wednesday to halt new workers' compensation...

SAN FRANCISCO - Relying on California's anti-SLAPP law, a federal judge threw out a product disparagement suit Wednesday agai...