LOS ANGELES - A judge threw out a $2 million award Wednesday against E! Entertainment Television because the arbitrator in the...

SACRAMENTO - A state appellate panel Tuesday closely questioned a tribal lawyer who argued that California's political watchd...

Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - My high-school English teacher had a difficult time coaxing his know-it-all seniors into under...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Stephan A. Mills - Several recent decisions signal a willingness by the appellate courts to ...

Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - Political autocrats, Leo Tolstoy observed, invariably comfort themselves on grounds th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man's home may be his castle, but that doesn't give him a right to destroy the property he shares with his ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that her office will begin a joint effort wit...

SACRAMENTO - In the wake of troubling stories of shoplifters doing 25 years to life, both liberals and conservatives in large ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors could use evidence seized from Robert Blake's house, even tho...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday that her office will begin a joint effort w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man who demonstrates for animal rights at San Francisco's Cow Palace when the circus or the rodeo is perfor...

SAN FRANCISCO - A clash between federal judges and the U.S. State Department over extraditing fugitives to countries where th...

RIVERSIDE - A controversial quotation by Theodore Roosevelt in a Riverside courtroom is going to stay put - for now. Further f...

SANTA ANA - High noon. Two men, each 5-foot-10, squared off outside the Central Courthouse for a game of one-on-one. The oppon...

BAKERSFIELD - Hundreds of laid-off farmworkers will receive a total of $1 million under the settlement of a class action that ...

LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by a labor dispute, hundreds of Los Angeles County Superior Court clerks on Tuesday failed to show up...

SAN FRANCISCO - An immigration judge wrongly deported an American citizen to Mexico, a divided federal appellate panel held M...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman Since 1994, the courts of California have rendered opinions that have greatl...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Frustration with the Bush administration's shortsighted and improvident restrictions on em...

Forum Column - By John D. O'Connor - The loudly trumpeted conclusion of the 9/11 Commission Report that there was no "collabor...

Forum Column - By Carlos Castresana - President Bush is not truthful when he asserts that the global test that Democratic pres...

REDWOOD CITY - Judge John G. Schwartz views himself as pretty conservative, a tough sentencer and, all in all, a fairly typica...

LOS ANGELES - To remove the perception of prejudice, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has recused himself from multimillion...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors portrayed two off-duty police officers as itching for a fight as their "Fajitagate" assault trial...

Barry Homer, a longtime partner at the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and a pioneer in the field of employee benefits...

Last month, John Nibbelin was working as a San Mateo County deputy county counsel, representing the public works department as...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the country's leading manufacturers of electronic voting machines has agreed to pay $125,000 to put an...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Residents of Los Angeles, especially attorneys, no doubt will be as pleased as children getting pon...

WASHINGTON - Continuing its scrutiny of the death-penalty process, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether convict...

SAN DIEGO - In a blow to Sempra Energy, a judge has cleared the way for a jury trial in an antitrust lawsuit charging that the...