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...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to revive a lawsuit brought by three California women who claimed Planned...

By Amy K. Spees The family of Adelaide Hernandez Medina recently was awarded $2.54 million in a medical-malpractice case stem...

By Lorelei Laird Eric Overman started on the road to a new home at Pillsbury Winthrop in Costa Mesa on Sept. 11, 2001. Overma...

By Draeger Martinez Nine battery manufacturers based in China can continue to export batteries by the shipload, thanks to a r...

By Draeger Martinez Attorneys, businesspeople and journalists sparred for two days at Loyola Law School over the state of Cal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two religious groups can participate in litigation over the constitutionality of gay marriage, a San Francisc...

By Dan Evans Though graduation may not seem much more than a pleasant dream, many second-year law students are plunging into ...

By Tina Spee It's been a year of milestones for Wood & Bender attorney Martha Sharp. After giving birth to her second chi...