SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge certified as a class action Thursday the civil rights lawsuit against San Francisco county jai...

WASHINGTON - The new committee appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to study how the federal judicial system is dea...

LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, former District Attorney Gil Garcetti rejected a Los Angeles sheriff's case accusing Orange Coun...

SAN FRANCISCO - Government tax attorneys might be well advised to have IRS agents wear sunglasses to reduce the "glare" factor...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday in Georgia for David W. Carroll, professor emeritus at USC Law School. Carroll, ...

American Online Inc. has settled its copyright dispute with science fiction author Harlan Ellison, four months after a federal...

SACRAMENTO - A respected Sacramento jurist has been accused in a lawsuit of abusing his authority by seeking to punish a young...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the heels of a fourth departure in two weeks, the remaining partners in Clifford Chance's San Francisco off...

LOS ANGELES - Lerach Coughlin Stoia & Robbins, the firm that formed after the West Coast partners of Milberg Weiss Bershad...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court cannot deny a defendant the right to file a peremptory challenge against his judge be...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer, launching the most serious set of allegations ever against plaintiffs active in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense attorneys for an alleged Guantanamo Bay spy are worried that military investigators will continue to s...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Thornton House should have been on vacation May 24. Instead, she was in he...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By F. M. Bud Ferrer - Last year, courts at opposite ends of the country ruled for the first tim...

Forum Column - By Saul Landau - Amnesty International's annual report, released in May, said, "The poor and the marginalized a...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Construction contracts are a fluid thing. Changes often occur at the ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Courts will remain open Friday, while the federal courts will be closed to all but emergenc...

SAN DIEGO - In the first Iraqi prisoner-abuse civil action, a New York-based human rights organization filed a federal lawsuit...

LOS ANGELES - A new judge has been chosen to preside over the massive civil litigation in Southern California's Roman Catholic...

VISALIA - At least once a week, usually over the lunch hour, Superior Court Judge Martin W. Staven steps off the bench, exits ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Maybe now would be a good time for God to destroy Los Angeles. The obliteration of the City of the An...

LOS ANGELES - Three years ago, after 43 police officers filed a class action accusing the Los Angeles Police Department of rac...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court waded deeper into the same-sex marriage dispute Wednesday by agreeing to decide t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court recognized for the first time Wednesday the right of posthumously conceived children t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Wednesday rejected a request to move a series of lawsuits regarding the constitutiona...

LOS ANGELES - Despite a large turnout of protesters urging them to do otherwise, Los Angeles County supervisors voted 3-2 Tues...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer declared Tuesday that San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris did not abus...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - California law permits the consolidation of separate arb...

Forum Column - By Christina J. Imre - At the end of his 97-page budget, Gov. Schwarzenegger recently proposed that the state o...

SACRAMENTO - A fourth judge surfaced Tuesday among a list of potential candidates being reviewed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...