Burial will take place Sunday for David L. Rosen, a former presiding judge of the state Workers' Compensation Appeals Board wh...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, things were looking up for Mario Juarez. A state appeal court had...

SAN JOSE - An East Palo Alto man who was exonerated in 2003 after serving a dozen years in prison for a murder he did not comm...

LOS ANGELES - A defendant in a drunken-driving case cannot throw out evidence of his blood-alcohol level because a San Diego p...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Archdiocese is putting off the filing of a planned motion to quash a subpoena for confidential c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Same-sex marriage opponents hope to use two San Francisco Superior Court judges' participation in separate gay...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mugsey was a dog with attitude. The 75-pound Staffordshire terrier once attacked his owner, Russell Nelson of ...

WASHINGTON - Following reports that Bush administration officials contended that the torture of al-Qaida suspects could be jus...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rejecting a free speech challenge, a federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a federal l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Not every message from the Great Communicator was received and understood. By 1974, Gov. Ronald Reagan and one...

WASHINGTON - A significant and enduring legacy of President Ronald Reagan, who died at 93 at his California home Saturday, wil...

Forum Column - By Bennet G. Kelley - It now is clear that President Bush intends to make his religious convictions and his fai...

Forum Column - By Rick Little - With our armed forces in Iraq, Americans naturally are focused on the military. We watch the n...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Jeffrey A. LeVee and Mark Fall - On Sept. 2, 2003, in a controversial decision, a three-judge...

Notebook - By Dennis Opatrny - SAN FRANCISCO - When she assumed office in January, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harr...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County jail is one of the nation's largest psychiatric facilities, thanks to Gov. Ronald Reagan'...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese is refusing to turn over secret church files sought by the Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - The United States Supreme Court cleared the path Monday for thousands of Mexican trucks to begin traveling nor...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether people who have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy can exempt ...

Column By Garry Abrams - When the Cold War ended more than a decade ago, the spy novel lay mangled, bleeding and comatose unde...

A large cross displayed on federal parkland in the Mojave Desert National Preserve violates a constitutional provision forbidd...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has yet to appoint a new judicial appointments secretary, but that's not stopping him ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. upstaged opening arguments Monday in the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Oracle Co...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian has many recollections of Ronald Reagan. But one of his most memorable, he...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Trey Ryder - If you're like most lawyers, you know the value of speaking with a prospective ...

A disbarred lawyer with a history of suing businesses for refusing entry to his miniature poodle suffered a rare courtroom def...

State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has weighed in on an ongoing controversy in the expert-witness community. Lockyer has deci...

Responding to booming property development across the Nevada state line, Irvine-based Payne & Fears will open an office in...

In what may be the first time in California, an appellate court has recognized the right to bring negligence and nuisance clai...

The Inner City Law Center, which works to improve living conditions for tenants of slum housing, chose an opulent setting for ...