Forum Column - By Vince Imhoff and Claudia Rosenbaum - Leondro Andrade took nine videotapes from Kmart, intended as Christmas ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge abused his discretion when he shortened the time required for a debtor to res...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prospective juror opposed to the death penalty should not be excluded based solely on answers to a questionn...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's convictions earlier this year on felony conspiracy and oth...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 100 sex abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests in Northern California, which seek million of do...

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday set Sept. 13 for a formal hearing into a complaint against Lo...

LOS ANGELES - The co-publisher of a legal-affairs newspaper and a deputy public defender will join the State Bar Board of Gove...

LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica judge reversed part of her earlier tentative ruling Thursday, largely denying a bid to keep secre...

SAN FRANCISCO - For once, asking which federal jurist is the fairest in the land has no relation to the judge's philosophy. A ...

LOS ANGELES - In his 14 years on the bench, Judge Kenneth R. Freeman has never wavered from the notion that the biggest challe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The bald eagle can't help the bison, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. In a unanimous dec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Whether scolding combative lawyers or putting bad guys in prison, the judge retrying the Oakland Riders case h...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Liability policies typically obligate insurance carriers to defend and inde...

Forum Column - By Glenn C. Smith - As a professor who closely follows the U.S. Supreme Court and is not always enamored with t...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Eric Weissmann - Product placement - using a product such as a car, champagne or cell ph...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - While trying to convince skeptical conservative activists of his father's Christian bona fid...

SANTA ANA - Barely two weeks after a mistrial in a rape case that could have sent him to prison for 55 years, the son of an Or...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jack C. Oppenheimer, a long-time lawyer with the federal government, has died after a brief illness. He was 86...

LOS ANGELES - The June 29 bail hearing for Christopher Kim lasted three hours and 15 minutes. Federal prosecutors and Kim's de...

WASHINGTON - The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday became the second federal appeals court to ru...

SANTA ANA - A suspended Orange County attorney pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 25 felony counts of theft, forgery and tax evas...

RIVERSIDE - District Attorney Grover Trask, one of the longest serving top prosecutors in the state, announced Wednesday that ...

SACRAMENTO - Doctors are not going to believe this, but trial lawyers are coming to their rescue. The lawyers feel bad that do...

LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica judge tentatively agreed Wednesday to unseal the detailed California High Patrol report of the Fa...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's highest court hopped on the Blakely bandwagon Wednesday, agreeing to take a closer look at the rol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Contingency planning or attempted coup? The Bush administration's bid for authority to cancel and reschedule t...

YOSEMTE NATIONAL PARK - In December, just six months shy of qualifying for full retirement, appellate Justice William M. Wunde...

LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento judge has thrown out a ruling that former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson should ...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - The Bush administration never has liked the federal judiciary so much as when it was put in...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In its second decision interpreting the parameters of Califo...