SANTA ANA - The girl at the center of a high-profile gang rape case testified Wednesday that she did not originally want the t...

A year after Santa Barbara Sheriff's deputies arrested 10 gay men who allegedly engaged in lewd conduct near a local beach, pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer hinted Wednesday that he's unlikely to second-guess District Attorney Kamala Har...

LOS ANGELES - Union officials have asked state legislators to investigate a "culture of secrecy and intimidation" at Los Angel...

Column By Garry Abrams - In the extraordinary life of Death Row Records impresario Marion "Suge" Knight, the same events seem ...

LOS ANGELES - Amid mounting calls for investigations and reforms of Los Angeles County's troubled jails, Sheriff Lee Baca said...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bar Association of San Francisco launched an offensive Tuesday to quiet the critics of District Attorney K...

LOS ANGELES - A venomous battle between two lawyers who once competed for the title of king of California's drunken-driving de...

Forum Column - By Benjamin Templin - "Higher quality information for investors" is the stated reason behind the Financial Acco...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey O'Connell and Brent Tantillo - Do you want to earn big fat fees for little to no work or risk doing ...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Under the 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution, state agenc...

SANTA ANA - The girl allegedly gang-raped by three teenagers testified Tuesday afternoon that she passed out five minutes afte...

SAN DIEGO - After a decade of back-and-forth litigation, a Los Angeles appellate court has ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two local technology companies have sued San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, claiming he breached prof...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has dismissed allegations that San Francisco Superior Court's top executives discriminated against a d...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Tuesday told the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors that budget cutbacks ...

SAN DIEGO - Four California law firms are among the 60 national shops that will split a $1.25 billion award of attorney fees f...

OROVILLE - Superior Court Judge William Patrick is used to dealing with self-represented litigants. In the three years since h...

LOS ANGELES - A Studio City motel operator, who strangled four members of a business rival's family before burning down their ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury is hearing evidence in a case that reveals some of the difficulties faced by social workers c...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Ever the optimist, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger estimated last week that he could c...

SAN FRANCISCO - A corporation that acquires a racial identity and suffers direct discrimination in contracting has standing to...

WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the nation's courthouses must be accessible to the disabled under the feder...

Forum Column - By William Kidder and Issac Martin - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to "expand the dream of college," but h...

Forum Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The city of Lodi is pre-empted from enforcing a city ordinance requiri...

Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo - Last summer, the high-flying acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil fired an HIV positive aeri...

SACRAMENTO - California figured prominently in the legal debates over segregation even before Brown v. Board of Education , bu...

SACRAMENTO - A state appellate court didn't show a whole lot of sympathy Monday for a rich father stuck with his ex-girlfriend...

SAN FRANCISCO - When inmate Samuel Austin complained in 1999 about a state prison guard exposing his genitals to him, authorit...

LOS ANGELES - California advocates vowed Monday to use the Supreme Court's decision on judicial access for the disabled to thr...