Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could crush the last vestiges of leg...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By David Halberstadter - Earlier this month, the state Supreme Court issued its newest deci...

SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services will be held today in Carlisle, Pa., for Morris L. Myers, a well-known lawyer and labor arbi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco law that helps women and racial minorities win public contracts is not sufficiently supported ...

LOS ANGELES - The Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down prosecutions of long-ago sexual abuse could spell the end of...

LOS ANGELES - Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore delivered a demand for justice for the count...

WASHINGTON - On a day of high drama at the Supreme Court, the justices ended their 2002-03 term Thursday with a whimper, dismi...

POIPU, Hawaii - It's tough to have sympathy for federal judges seeking a 16.5 percent hike in their $150,000 a year salary dur...

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist sure knows how to grab an audience by the throat so they'll listen to his ever...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors on Thursday were studying whether to drop charges against dozens of Catholic priests in Southern Cal...

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., vowed Thursday to move quickly on a U.S. Supreme Court nomination if ...

LOS ANGELES - Three administrative Superior Court judges allowed alleged burglars, batterers and carjackers to go free rather ...

LOS ANGELES - After Friday night, attorney Robin Meadow officially will be at the helm of the nation's largest voluntary bar o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Changes in a popular anti-diarrhea medication prompted by a court settlement with the state could present a ri...

WASHINGTON - Handing a stunning 7-2 victory to defendants facing the death penalty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that defe...

LOS ANGELES - As many as 800 people convicted of child molestation under a California law allowing prosecution of long-ago sex...

LOS ANGELES - In a stunning reversal of one of its own rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down state laws that...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Jessica A. Mayer - If you are like most computer-savvy consumers, th...

Forum Column - By William W. Funderburk Jr. and David Niebauer - In the continuing saga of the state's efforts to allocate fin...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Frank J. Johnson Jr. - On June 16, Microsoft filed a series of complaints alleging that profe...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County sheriff can challenge newly installed term limits on the sheriff's office as unconstituti...

SAN DIEGO - California appellate justices ruled in 75 cases since 1970 that prosecutorial misconduct prejudiced the defendant,...

LOS ANGELES - Flanked by the family of Kenitha Saafir, attorney Carl Douglas on Wednesday announced a wrongful-death lawsuit ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A California appeals court will consider whether to reduce a $26 million landmark tobacco verdict in light of ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Let's call this one Pimp v. MasterCard . The litigious owner of a string of Florida escort ser...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense attorney Michael Burt, known for his unusual courtroom strategies, wants a San Francisco judg...

POIPU, Hawaii - Larry Thompson, the Justice Department's second-in-command, drew a hostile reception from some federal judges ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A demented San Quentin death row inmate who thinks Howard Hughes told him how to cure AIDS with yellow chili ...

LOS ANGELES - A group of prosecutors voted Tuesday night to ask the Committee on Judicial Performance to investigate three adm...

SAN FRANCISCO - Guarding one of the most recognized brands on the Internet is a full-time job. Just ask Rose Hagan, Google In...