In times of war, it is considered not only acceptable but heroic to kill as many of the enemy as possible. Soldiers receive aw...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge dismissed a Long Beach attempted-murder case case Monday on grounds that a Los Angeles po...

SAN FRANCISCO - An unusual joint prosecution by District Attorney Terence Hallinan and City Attorney Louise Renne has resulted...

The bad, though not surprising, news from the Supreme Court last month is that the justices, in an opinion written by Justice ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After serving more than 15 years of a life sentence for a notorious double murder in Santa Clara County, Glen ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Judge Patrick Couwenberg, facing removal from the bench, suffers from a mental condition that caus...

LOS ANGELES - Commanding a courtroom for perhaps the last time, former personal injury attorney James H. Davis gestured wildly...

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers who filed a class-action, price-fixing complaint against California's nine largest gasoline providers are ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial will take place June 30 for Administrative Law Judge William Francis Byrnes, who served at the state ...

RIVERSIDE - A foster father was convicted of second-degree murder, assault and child endangerment Monday for failing to act wh...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County district attorney's office will ask that Fremont software firm Avant Corp. pay at least $200...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Bloom stakes his claim to a greater share of the Geronimo Pratt fee fund on three acts he performed in ...

"It is corrosive leprosy, and the house is unclean. It shall be pulled down, and all its stones, beams and mortar shall be hau...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County court can award custody of two Saudi Arabian children to their U.S.-based mother after they wer...

WASHINGTON - A Supreme Court ruling on Monday has limited the ability of federal law enforcement officials to use thermal imag...

WASHINGTON - Expanding the rights of religious groups to use public facilities, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday that public...

LOS ANGELES - As time went on, the brutality escalated. When police arrived at the couple's downtown apartment in early April,...

SAN JOSE - The constitutional rights of members of the San Jose chapter of the Hells Angels were likely violated because autho...

LOS ANGELES - On Sunday, Fox News legal commentator Andrew Napolitano called me at home to talk about the Timothy McVeigh deat...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Oakland Cannabis Buyer's Cooperative was entirely predictable. A defense o...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:

Media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG has bought Internet music company Myplay Inc. for $30 million. Bertelsmann, located in Guter...

The Arthritis Foundation has appointed Michael Wright, a partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Woods in Los Angeles, to the boa...

A year ago, the Old World was still eager not to be left behind on the road to the New Economy. Today, in Europe, the prospect...

San Francisco's NextCard Inc., which issues credit cards online, has completed a sale of $700 million in secured notes. The th...

The article titled "Credit Bureaus Fight ID-Theft Legislation" (Legal Beat, April 13), which describes the efforts of credit b...

LOS ANGELES - An arbitrator has ruled that the Los Angeles Unified School District must pay $17 million in disputed fees to th...

International tax heavy Bob Kirschenbaum says there's no better place for his practice than the Palo Alto office of Baker &...

Cities and redevelopment agencies that acquire, clean up and develop contaminated properties improved their odds of recovering...

The slumping economy has helped some of William Bernfeld's clients. For example, the real estate partner at Century City's Kir...