LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors and Los Angeles police officials are investigating officers involved in the June 19 flashlight beati...

LOS ANGELES - In a rare ruling that defies both controlling case law and state statutes, an appellate court has reversed a def...

SAN FRANCISCO - The victim of an accidental shooting hopes the state attorney general's opposition to the sale of a gun compan...

SACRAMENTO - Bankers who lost a legal challenge to California's landmark consumer-privacy law say they will appeal a federal j...

Column By Garry Abrams - Here's a suggestion for the latest furor surrounding the Los Angeles Police Department. Everybody in ...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento federal Judge Morrison England has been on the bench less than two years. But he already has a promine...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for two men accused of assault in the "Fajitagate" case that initially involved low-level cops and e...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Anaheim police officer who claims he was hounded out of his job for reporting misconduct by other officers ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a kidnapping charge was appropriate for a defendant who trick...

SAN FRANCISCO - A North Carolina energy company has agreed to pay San Francisco Unified School District $43.1 million to settl...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time in its 83-year history, the San Francisco public defender's office will begin charging clie...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Cassandra S. Franklin - It's a familiar scenario. Discovery has begun in your case and the othe...

Forum Column - By Thomas R. Owens - For some of us, the videotaped beating of Stanley Miller by uniformed officers of the Los ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey Eglash - The videotaped beating of Stanley Miller by a Los Angeles Police Department officer poses t...

Forum Column - By Anthony Lewis - "A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the na...

LOS ANGELES - The Orange County court employees' union cannot bypass the court in an effort to get travel records for judges a...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco judges will increase bail today for a variety of crimes ranging from the sale of marijuana to po...

SAN DIEGO - John J. Ambrose Jr. worked as a Los Angeles County prosecutor, a sole practitioner in Palos Verdes and a San Diego...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the San Francisco-based federal appeals court to consider whether a petiti...

SAN FRANCISCO - Would you buy a used car from Arnold Schwarzenegger? Akron, Ohio, auto dealer Fred Martin thought so and used ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge John Kraetzer likely knows no one would give him an award for moving trials along...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew Henderson - Punitive damages make up a notoriously contentious field of law. As in the ...

Forum Column - By Abdul Aziz Said - It is important that the mistakes of the past, which brought the authoritarian regime of S...

LOS ANGELES - Allstate Insurance agreed Tuesday to issue life coverage to people who have visited Israel, and six other carrie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance will close its doors in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego tonight, leaving only its fou...

LOS ANGELES - A Newport Beach man won an $11.9 million jury verdict in a wrongful-termination suit against his former employer...

A state appellate court Tuesday struck down the sentence in a drug treatment case, saying that under Proposition 36 a judge ca...

HAYWARD - An Alameda County judge Tuesday rejected prosecutors' arguments that the lead attorney in the Riders police corrupti...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Alvarez-Machain case left in doubt the future of a series of lawsuits fil...