SAN FRANCISCO - A Miami jury Wednesday awarded $4 million to the Bay Area family of a Chilean man who was tortured and killed...

LOS ANGELES - As contentious labor disputes engulf Southern California, the companies, county agencies and unions caught in th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lying in cyberspace just got riskier. Internet service providers as well as individual users will now be liab...

LOS ANGELES - Kathleen Sullivan, the dean of Stanford Law School since 1999, will step down from her post in September. Sulliv...

LOS ANGELES - Consumer activists contend a new state law will lead to illegal surcharges for automobile drivers who lack proof...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ditches and culverts that send muddy runoff pouring off logging roads and into nearby streams are subject to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kathleen Sullivan, a noted constitutional law scholar, will step down as dean of Stanford Law School next yea...

Column By Garry Abrams California, a bottomless morass of litigious special-interest groups and individuals, continued to cla...

SAN FRANCISCO - The campaign rhetoric of Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has crept into the San Francisco campaign for distr...

WASHINGTON - Around 2 p.m. on July 15, 1998, as Lashawn Lowell Banks was taking a shower in his North Las Vegas apartment, loc...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The moment that embattled conservative talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh admitted that h...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Robert C. Barnes - Just when Californians thought that the state's fiscal health couldn't ge...

Forum Column - By Barbara S. Blinderman - It's a question of values. If an attorney gets paid for his efforts, it's because so...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge John M. Watson Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against rolling wildca...

WASHINGTON - Taking another plunge into the world of online pornography, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review the con...

SAN DIEGO - A parish priest who later became a vice president at the University of San Diego raped a 14-year-old girl at a Cat...

OAKLAND - The family of a young Oakland man who was shot to death in his bed earlier this month by two police officers filed a...

LOS ANGELES - In what observers call a novel application of a new state law, the union for striking Southern California grocer...

LOS ANGELES - A disbarred Los Angeles attorney and confidante to a South Gate official accused of corruption was sentenced to ...

VENTURA - With a background that includes working as an FBI special agent and district attorney, it's no surprise that Ventura...

CHATSWORTH - A Chatsworth jury slammed the Ford Motor Co. and a trucking company with a $45 million verdict Tuesday in a case ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Any doctor in the U.S., not just California doctors, may recommend marijuana to their patients without fear of...

SAN JOSE - The first cases in a mammoth wave of litigation by high-tech workers against International Business Machines Inc., ...

WASHINGTON - Jumping into the emotionally charged controversy swirling around the Pledge of Allegiance, the Supreme Court on T...

LOS ANGELES - Strikers offering their message to Southern California grocery shoppers in the three-day-old labor dispute were ...

LOS ANGELES - When the hiring partners at Munger, Tolles & Olson are about to toss the resume of a law-school grad with le...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The rights of creditors can conflict with the rights o...

Forum Column - By M. V. Lee Badgett and R. Bradley Sears - Pete Knight is at it again. The California state senator, R-Palmdal...

LOS ANGELES - Paul Leo Freese Sr., retired head of the litigation department at Los Angeles' Kindel & Anderson and a key l...

SACRAMENTO - The last measure in a package of four bills giving residents in common interest developments, such as condominium...