RIVERSIDE - Superior Court judges have chosen a prosecutor and a civil research attorney to sit as commissioners. Deputy Distr...

WASHINGTON - Three California federal judicial nominees received unanimous support from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thur...

LOS ANGELES - With the recall election less than two weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis' push to appoint as many judges as he can mov...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday dismissed the majority of racketeering and fraud claims brought by an NBA player aga...

Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - For years, the courts have stripped due process rights from aliens, who ...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Martin Quinn - During mediation of a claim for disability-insurance benefit...

Forum Column - By Reza Dibadj - The excesses of the economic bubble of the late 1990s, which featured cooked accounting statem...

Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - You might think the long-anticipated indictment of Santa Clara County Superior Court...

SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Aaron Persky and former Deputy County Counsel Carrie A. Zepeda wer...

LOS ANGELES - A trial pitting Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe against the founders of the chic Earl Jean Inc. company sett...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take up the case of a convicted methamphetamine maker ordered...

SAN BERNARDINO - In an unusually large personal injury verdict, a San Bernardino Superior Court jury Tuesday awarded $31 milli...

SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Steven H. Rodda's family goes back nearly 150 years in Sacramento, and Rodda is about as wel...

LOS ANGELES - The recording industry's decision to sue 261 individuals for sharing files online grabbed the spotlight this mon...

LOS ANGELES - The Internet invasion has reached its final frontier - the lofty terrain of appellate-law practice. A brief file...

Column By Garry Abrams - That wild and crazy guy, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, keeps finding ways to make people so ma...

SACRAMENTO - The success of a lawsuit filed earlier this week against California's new domestic partnership law likely will de...

SAN FRANCISCO - The campaign for district attorney is getting interesting. Incumbent Terence Hallinan has opened a 9-point lea...

SACRAMENTO - The Pacific Legal Foundation filed a suit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a key element of the sta...

Forum Column - By Antonio R. Sarabia II - Victims of crime should be encouraged to provide not only information but also other...

Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Stephen F. Rohde - Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Sixth Amendment a...

SAN DIEGO - California consumers who just want a tidy toilet are getting taken to the cleaners themselves because powerful che...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis Tuesday appointed Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender Drew E. Edwards and Pasadena tria...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley's office has urged appellate judges to unseal a secret ruling on church files tha...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis had little choice but to sign into law new provisions offering workers greater protections agains...

SAN FRANCISCO - Litigation against Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton on allegations its legal advice helped to perpetuate ...

SAN DIEGO - Private services have been held for a former professor at the University of San Diego School of Law who is recogni...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding that Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde "cannot or will not conform his behavior to...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser has been indicted on a felony count of conspiracy and eight ...

LOS ANGELES - During the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's televised recall hearing Tuesday, Judge Alex Kozinski drew laughs ...