Sylvia Wagner and her brother Barney fought for years over money that they inherited from their father. And the battle continu...

Jurors often assess witnesses through "stereotyping," which can become the basis of the jurors' initial impression of those wi...

The case was more than complicated. It was fraught with pitfalls and filled with twists and turns including allegations of dru...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - For San Luis Obispo County sheriff's investigators, the digitized images of a welfare applicant's fingerprin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars will play out in court after all, after settlement talks co...

LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed better security at the North Valley Jewish Community C...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Francisco trial attorney James J. Brosnahan will represent John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old fo...

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers should be able to practice law in another jurisdiction to serve a client on a temporary basis without bei...

SAN DIEGO - Over the objections of the Public Defenders Association and the Deputy District Attorneys Association, the Board o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court wrestled Tuesday with the First Amendment question of whether the news media should ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.1 million contract with GKK Corp. for desig...

SAN DIMAS - Services have taken place for Raymond G. Lamb, a prominent Pomona Valley lawyer and community leader. Lamb died Th...

VAN NUYS - For Judge John S. Fisher, a former prosecutor and son of a Los Angeles police officer, the Rampart scandal was an e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County authorities dropped plans Tuesday to take an assault allegation against a San Francisco prosecuto...

SACRAMENTO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it will reconsider a controversial decision that gra...

LOS ANGELES - It's not too often lacrosse helps to save someone's life. But that's what happened, at least for a time, in the ...

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are complaining that hearings on the Bush administration's controversial new anti-terrorism le...

On March 3, 1999, a middle-aged African-American man named LaFrance Hamilton was bicycling near his home, when he was stopped ...

You've obtained a significant win for your client - the Court of Appeal has reversed the dismissal that your opponent obtained...

Basic principles of parliamentary procedure hold that a majority decides but that a minority has a right to be heard and that ...

SAN DIEGO - Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch has agreed to acquire the Carlsbad-based firm of Lodge & Heller in an e...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of possessing child...

SAN FRANCISCO - The public can learn the identity of two mystery figures allegedly involved in the case of convicted felon and...

VICTORVILLE - The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. was not responsible for the death of a 10-year-old boy who was ...

LOS ANGELES - Is it possible to guard against the violent acts of a zealot? According to Eleanor and Charles Kadish, the answe...

LOS ANGELES - Sara Jane Olson's lawyers did a terrific job Monday of proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have been st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer activist organization's bid to formally represent Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s 4.5 million ratepa...

Once again, our federal court of appeals has decided to impose its own view of policy on the people of California, telling the...