Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The decision to let stand a $290 million punitive damages award was...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to help a federal appeals court decide whether a policy that a...

SACRAMENTO - Bruce Brusavich tackles his breakfast much the way he confronts a product liability case or legislation: He gets ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a man convicted of murder and facing the death penalty in Imperial County moved Wednesday to disqu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan,...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prison inmate who stabbed his cellmate in both eyes and then strangled him to death has won a reduced senten...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a key victory for the state Judicial Council, a federal judge Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by two stock m...

Forum Column - By Eric Goldman - In introducing yet another online privacy bill, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) claimed that "p...

LOS ANGELES - Monster-movie guru Forrest Ackerman, also known as "Dr. Acula," can keep a $518,000 judgment he won from his for...

SAN FRANCISCO - A skeptical and sarcastic Judge Alex Kozinski and two colleagues Tuesday revived part of Gennifer Flowers' 199...

SAN RAFAEL - A Marin County prosecutor failed Tuesay to derail San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews' self-defense claim that...

SAN DIEGO - It can be as late as 11 p.m. when Superior Court Judge Sheridan Eckhardt Reed goes down to her basement workshop. ...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David M. Niebauer and William W. Funderburk Jr . - When the government tries to decide h...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Today, nearly 17,000 nursing homes exist in the United States, with a resident populati...

LOS ANGELES - Former Beverly Hills attorney Angela F. Wallace was arrested Tuesday by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies and accus...

YUCCA VALLEY - It was a scandal that thrust this small High Desert town into the headlines as six of its high school's finest ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Harry Low, the retired appellate justice brought in to clean up the state's scandal-plagued insurance departme...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a 10-year-old boy allegedly sexually abused by his foster father filed a petition for review wit...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge Tuesday kept alive a woman's unusual civil lawsuit accusing authorities of keeping her b...

WASHINGTON - Returning to the issue of pornography on the Internet, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether th...

WASHINGTON - In a case pitting lingerie maker Victoria's Secret against a Kentucky sex shop called Victor's Little Secret, a s...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the deal that led to the closi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan...

LOS ANGELES - Paramedics responding to a 911 call from a rundown apartment on 11th Street East in Palmdale March 7 found a ble...

Column - By Garry Abrams - You gotta wonder if confession and prison time will prove to be a kind of two-step shock therapy fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lynne F. Stewart, the New York radical lawyer, arrived in Palo Alto on Friday expecting to be honored as a men...

LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of troubled children, many of them suicidal, are in Los Angeles' County's foster-care system, according...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's public employee pension fund has become the latest plaintiff seeking to hold Wall Street account...

Forum Column - By Lee A. Wood - When did the rights of litigants become less important than courtroom calendars and the court'...

Forum Column - By James Acret - On the last day of its 2002 session, the Legislature passed SB800 at the urging of a coalition...