WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld "Megan's laws" against challenges that they violate the rights of sex...
WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday upheld three-strikes laws in California and 24 other states against charg...
Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Contra Costa County attorneys and court employees who endured bullying and humiliation...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first legal battle in the case against San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders and his fellow officers fo...
Constitutional Law
Circuit Grants Protection to Parolees From Some Searches
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Police must have a "reasonable suspicion" of criminal activity to justify the warrantless search of a parolee...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - Barring a coup by Iraqi generals, it is inevitable that the United States will lead a coa...
Column By Garry Abrams - For a long time, I thought it was a bad joke. But now I know it's true. Los Angeles really is the Cit...
SAN DIEGO - With the warm sun shining in February and a soft breeze rustling the palm trees, it's easy to see why Howard Wayn...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for USA Interactive's Ticketmaster hailed as a victory a recent decision by a Los Angeles federal judge...
Large Firms
Bench Officer Relieves Attorney As Counsel for Defunct Brobeck
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco defense attorney John Keker has gotten his wish and will no longer have to represent Brobeck, Phl...
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying there is "little to be lost, and potentially much to be gained," the federal judge presiding over the ...
SACRAMENTO - The head of the state Assembly Judiciary Committee won initial approval Tuesday for a bill that would allow work...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Lesbian Can Sue Doctors Who Wouldn't Inseminate
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that a San Diego woman could sue doctors who refused to artificially inse...
SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal law experts suspect San Francisco prosecutors will have no easy task winning convictions against pol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying there is "little to be lost, and potentially much to be gained," the federal judge presiding over the ...
LOS ANGELES - Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward has lost its second partner to San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is moving its San Francisco headquarters out of the Financial District to ...
Natural Resources
Judge Upholds State's Rules for Diverting Delta Water
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge, in what is being called one of the most significant water rulings in years...
SAN FRANCISCO - Big paydays should always be so easy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali took less than 10 minutes Friday t...
SAN DIEGO - A mentally ill drifter will stand trial for the 1998 slaying of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe after a San Diego Cou...
Intellectual Property
High Court Uncovers Naked Truth About Sex Shop Name
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Acting on a trademark suit brought by lingerie maker Victoria's Secret, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a t...
LOS ANGELES - Washington power lawyer Robert Bennett has stood up to special prosecutors and defended a sitting U.S. presiden...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has upheld a freeze on the assets of a Beverly Hills woman whose ex-husband was ordered...
Forum Column By Kevin B. Zeese Marney Craig is a middle-class Caucasian woman with a good job, fine family and clear sense of ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that extended the deadline for victi...
Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - It makes prosecutors nervous when judges go outside their traditional roles. Therefore,...
Entertainment & Sports
Panel Lets Sci-Fi Writer Sue for Film Profits
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Television director and science fiction film writer Ib Melchior can continue to fight New Line Productions Inc....
LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for private investigator Anthony Pellicano said Monday that gun charges against his client should be...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan on Monday invoked his past as a civil libertarian and his current role as t...
Government
Bill Fazio, the Once and Future Rival, Wants to See Hallinan in Court
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer Bill Fazio, a longtime rival for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan's jo...