SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Thursday declared unconstitutional a California law that allows juvenile sex offenders...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to focus the debate over San Francisco's gay marriage revolution on the constitutional issue, San Franc...

RIVERSIDE - After years of negotiating powers of attorney on the steps of airplanes departing for war and ensuring protests at...

Forum Column - By Richard C. Dieter - The U.S. Supreme Court took a step in the right direction when it agreed to review the c...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Deborah Rothman and Zela G. Claiborne - A veteran trial lawyer once said th...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Apparently for the first time since the dark days of J. Edgar Hoover, the government has tri...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In recent years, questions continued to arise as to how insurance polices a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has returned complete defense verdicts in a sexual harassment case between local attorne...

SAN FRANCISCO - The two San Francisco attorneys who blame each other for standing up the state's highest court last week now f...

SAN DIEGO - Defense lawyers said Wednesday that stabbing victim Stephanie Crowe was killed by her brother and two of his teena...

San Francisco can continue to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the 1st District Court of Appeal late Wednesda...

Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - DOUGLAS CITY - Stepping into the Trinity River in February is an exercise in endurance...

Column By Garry Abrams - Just when gadfly attorney Richard Isaac Fine, who has an almost legendary reputation for tangling wit...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court denied a petition Wednesday by two civil rights groups and a student association to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Individual farmers cannot sue the federal government for curtailing water deliveries for environmental reasons...

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of a church report acknowledging that hundred of priests have been accused of molesting children, al...

Forum Column - By Richard McKee - Fighting public agency secrecy just got a little easier with the Los Angeles Times successfu...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michael D. Singer - With the attention of the wage-and-hour class-action bar focused on the...

Forum Column - By Bennett Kelley - A chorus of Democrats have declared that the Bush administration is among the most reckless...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a plan aimed at helping troubled families keep child...

LOS ANGELES - The president of the Recording Industry Association of America claimed victory Tuesday on one front of the battl...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has been criticized for raising millions of dollars to promote his bond and budg...

SAN DIEGO - Six years after the stabbing death of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe, prosecutors on Tuesday began opening statements...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could have widespread implications for lawsuits against automobile manufacturers, a Los Angeles...

LOS ANGELES - In its bid to fend off a hostile takeover by Comcast Corp, media giant Walt Disney Co. has called in a cast of t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like many Baghdad businessmen, Salam Abdullah relies upon a generator to make up for the city's spotty electri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison can proceed with their lawsuit against Philade...

LOS ANGELES - Responding to complaints that state inmates in a prison jobs program were not paid fairly or even at all, a San ...

OAKLAND - Alameda Superior Court Judge Lawrence John Appel has a definite view of what does - and what does not - constitute a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Tuesday ordered the city of San Francisco to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples or to ...