SAN DIEGO - Neighbors of David A. Westerfield on Tuesday told how they talked casually with the 50-year-old self-employed engi...

LOS ANGELES - In a raid that began Tuesday, Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith is expected to take as many as ...

WASHINGTON - Things are looking up for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - at least, judging by its performance at the U.S...

WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court, familiarity breeds repetition. After eight terms together, the current nine justices have s...

SAN DIEGO - Two animal DNA experts testified Monday in a closed hearing that interrupted the trial of David A. Westerfield, wh...

Column by Garry Abrams - Never trust a strip club to pay its bills. That's the eternal lesson Ana Bernardi learned earlier thi...

LOS ANGELES - London-based Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells opened four California offices Monday after a weekend raid of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the nearly four years that Gray Davis has been governor of California, he has compiled a record of highly q...

SANTA ANA - A former parishioner accused the Diocese of Orange of concealing knowledge of a religious instructor's sexual acts...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appeal court has revived a bitter fee fight between Angela Alioto and Waukeen Q. McCoy, reinst...

LOS ANGELES - The largest nongovernment health care provider for HIV-infected patients in the United States sued the U.S. arm ...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Thomas R. Simpson has finished his last year on the Los Angeles Superior Court bench at the courthouse whe...

LOS ANGELES - While it may be liable on other claims, a newspaper that assigned one of its reporters to cover a Humane Society...

SAN BERNARDINO - The Board of Supervisors wants to give itself unprecedented authority to oust other elected officials for a r...

SAN FRANCISCO - A decade ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court barred clergymen from offering school graduation prayers on grounds ...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - "I don't think so. As soon as you start to give up civil liberties in the name of se...

LOS ANGELES - The person who might be the least worked up over last week's federal court ruling to strike the words "under God...

Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - Over the past year, the California appellate courts have dived head first into one of the las...

Dicta Column - By Elizabeth Lampert - It almost doesn't matter whether 2002 turns out to be a boom year or a bust. Competition...

Forum Column - By Burt Pines - Before taking my present post as judicial appointments secretary to Gov. Gray Davis, I was accu...

LOS ANGELES - He's an unassuming "Oregon cowboy" and a retired Army captain from World War II who favors Vanna White and, much...

Del Monte Foods Co. has agreed to acquire several food and pet brands from H.J. Heinz Co. The June 13 deal is worth nearly $3 ...

The San Francisco office of Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has recruited Kim Zeldin , a complex commercial litig...

NORWALK - A portrait of a naked woman hangs on the wall of Judge James M. Sutton Jr.'s chamber. Sutton recognizes its politica...

RIVERSIDE - A state appellate panel has decided that prohibiting topless dancers from fondling themselves while performing at ...

SANTA ANA - At the urging of county counsel, Orange County's Board of Supervisors has agreed to look for an outside law firm f...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Court files regarding paternity cases are confidential in our court system. Files regardin...

LOS ANGELES - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison should be a slender version of its former self following what many expected to b...

WASHINGTON - Taking on an issue involving thousands of incarcerated criminal aliens, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to con...

OAKLAND - U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken is striving to broker a deal among counsel in the Earth First case that would all...