WASHINGTON - When the Philadelphia Eagles kicked off their football season on Sept. 12, newly acquired wide receiver Terrell O...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired state appellate justice with ties to a Salinas hospital had no business presiding over an administra...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Stuart Miller - In most cases in which a person faces a deprivation of life, liberty or prope...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday certified a class action on behalf of 250 Abercrombie & Fitch em...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego City Council vote to remove a rope barrier that bars humans from a popular seal beach has sparked new ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday vetoed a bill, apparently directed at a retired appellate justice, that...

SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court Thursday ordered the San Diego County Civil Service Commission to turn over to a newspaper...

LOS ANGELES - In one of the first applications of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Blakely decision, a state appellate court ha...

REDDING - Superior Court Judge Stephen H. Baker's appointment to the Shasta County bench last year inspired a bit of a fanfare...

LOS ANGELES - What promises to be a nasty campaign over a November ballot measure to rein in California's "three strikes and y...

SAN FRANCISCO - "Do not assist these loved ones. Let their fate be what it is. We know where you are, where you live and where...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the Los Angeles County ...

SAN FRANCISCO - German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to plead guilty to fixing the price of computer memory ch...

SANTA ANA - A ballot initiative designed to end the "legal extortion" caused by the state's unfair competition laws gained a b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Amie Anderson was trapped in Washington state's foster care system like a passenger stuck on a beat-up Greyhou...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Max Factor III - In California, the state Legislature and the Supreme Court...

LOS ANGELES - Signaling an important victory for disability rights advocates, a state appeals court Wednesday reversed a trial...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like a home run hitter waiting for a fat pitch, Oakland attorney Gary Gwilliam is sitting on a lawsuit against...

SACRAMENTO - California's three-strikes law has reduced crime rates, stabilized the prison population and had other "positive ...

LOS ANGELES - The final lawsuit over the crash of the Angels Flight Railway ended Tuesday, when plaintiff Sid Carter reached a...

SAN FRANCISCO - John B. Molinari won respect and acclaim as an attorney, trial judge and appellate justice, without ever movin...

LOS ANGELES - Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has called on the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into ...

SAN FRANCISCO The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to consider a Humboldt County dog bite case in which a lower appellate ...

LOS ANGELES - A blue-ribbon panel hand-picked by District Attorney Steve Cooley to look into the recent spate of jailhouse mur...

SAN JOSE - A criminal grand jury's admonition to witnesses not to talk to anyone - including news reporters - about their test...

Column By Garry Abrams - If words could kill in this presidential election season, most of the lawyers in the country would be...

LOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara County prosecutors may have thought they'd protected their witnesses from early defense scrutiny w...

SAN FRANCISCO - In another blow to affirmative action, a state appellate court has concluded that government contracting progr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for two former Pelican Bay State Prison guards who conspired to solicit nine inmate beatings and stab...

LOS ANGELES - After fighting each other in court, boxing reality shows from rival TV networks teamed up Tuesday to keep the Lo...