LOS ANGELES - In a controversial split decision Wednesday, a federal appeals court held that a learning-impaired student faile...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply split 11-judge federal appeals panel Wednesday upheld the forced collection of DNA blood samples fro...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge could rule today in one of a flurry of cases that pits reporters' traditional First Amendment pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - An executive order signed soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks is being used improperly by the military to ex...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - As the War on Drugs continues, one issue that frequently arises is wheth...

RIVERSIDE - Prosecutor and former Assemblyman Rod Pacheco announced Tuesday that he will run for Riverside district attorney i...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors Tuesday finally went to trial against W. Shepardson "Shep" McCook, the central figure in all...

LOS ANGELES - Eighty more former clients have come forward with claims that personal-injury lawyer Bret M. Cooke of San Luis O...

SANTA MONICA - The builder of a backyard playhouse will pay the city of Santa Monica $85,000 in legal fees under an agreement ...

SAN BERNARDINO - As a contract psychologist for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Nancy K. Bohl says she helps d...

REDWOOD CITY - Judge John Schwartz views himself as pretty conservative, a tough sentencer and, all in all, a fairly typical a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge who ordered San Francisco to stop giving women- and minority-owned businesses special treatment when...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - There's nothing quite as refreshing as a well-written dissent. That came to mind last week with t...

Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Critics of the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act rely on inflammat...

SANTA MARIA - Santa Barbara District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon Jr. denied repeatedly Monday that he ever considered the possi...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Clara Torres moved to the United States from her native Colombia last year, she didn't speak a word of En...

Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Levine - Thursday's state Supreme Court decision regarding San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's au...

Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment, the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses is so ...

Film Review - "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" - By Stephen Zager - With each viewing of a new political documen...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Qin Shi - Newness, inventiveness, and usefulness constitute the foundation of patent...

SAN FRANCISCO - Upwardly Global hasn't placed lawyers with any major U.S. law firms, but it expects to soon, according to prog...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran criminal defense attorney Harry Weiss, whose career spanned six decades, died Aug. 12 in Chatsworth. He ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Pillsbury Winthrop has added its first securities litigation and white-collar defense ...

SANTA ANA - Richard C. White, an attorney who helped open the Orange County office of O'Melveny & Myers, has died after a ...

The mother of a boy fatally injured in a schoolyard brawl cannot recover damages from the Palmdale School District, a state ap...

SACRAMENTO - The leader of the state Senate intends to shelve his proposal to overturn a California Supreme Court decision and...

WASHINGTON - Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is making a special contribution to the Supreme Cour...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow's 163-page ruling in the matter of U.S. v. Braswell hardly qualifies ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Raven, a former president of the American Bar Association, a pre-eminent figure in San Francisco's anti...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal courts have no authority to interfere with the secretary of state's decision to extradite fugitives to...