LOS ANGELES - Rebecca Avila, the leader of a campaign-finance-research project at the University of Southern California, has j...

SACRAMENTO - After a wait of more than two years, Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday made his first two appointments of public members...

SACRAMENTO - The unification of superior and municipal courts has vastly improved the state judicial system and its public ser...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino officials have reinstated a city law that prevents the City Council from hiring outside lawyer...

SAN JOSE - Employees who are leaving out-of-state companies to take jobs in California are getting more aggressive - and succe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sharply curtailing an antitrust case by 27 independent booksellers, a federal judge has ruled that the group c...

SEATTLE - Some law-oriented "Survivor" fans may have noticed an eerie resemblance between the wildly popular CBS reality show ...

LOS ANGELES - The best years are the first years, if you're on television. Continuing the nation's obsession with all things l...

LOS ANGELES - A California appellate court handed Warner Bros. studios a stunning victory Tuesday in its long-running, high-pr...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday resolved an important intellectual-property issue with a decidedly pro-competition ruli...

The justices Tuesday, March 20, 2001 announced the following actions:

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge moved Monday to block one of the Clinton administration's final, controversial environmental p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Timothy Tosta, the chairman of the real-state and land-use group at the Bay Area's Baker & McKenzie office...

For the past couple of centuries, we have acknowledged childhood as a distinct period in a person's life and have treated chil...

The degree to which a takings claim is impeded because the owner obtained title after a regulation became effective is one iss...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Monterey attorney's insurer has agreed to pay $910,000 to a Seattle woman to settle her claim that he cost h...

This month's topic is the poor relation of motion practice: the motion to reconsider. These motions are on my mind because I'm...

LOS ANGELES - A police dog named Reilly has failed to pin an arson rap on rap performer Nate Dogg. Los Angeles criminal defens...

LOS ANGELES - Damian Monroe "Football" Williams, who gained notoriety as the man who beat trucker Reginald Denny at the outset...

LOS ANGELES - A dozen employees of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services have filed a lawsuit sayi...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit pitting a Northridge apartment building owner against Allstate ...

LOS ANGELES - Kimberly A. Dunne has left her post as the chief of the public corruption and government fraud section of the U....

SAN FRANCISCO - Buoyed by last year's record profits and not dissuaded by the current economic downturn, two large out-of-town...

LOS ANGELES - Relying on a Supreme Court decision that bars defendants from seeking civil-rights claims when they have an unde...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday appeared ready to curtail the sovereign immunity of Native American tribes, at least whe...

The Bush Administration and American Bar Association appeared locked in a debate Monday over the new administration's decision...

Among actions announced Monday, March 19, 2001 by the justices were:

It's hard to tell whether Kevin Duffis' life is an example of art imitating life or life imitating art. As a boy growing up in...

SAN FRANCISCO - It looks like the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzie will need to shop for some real estate and land...

Britain's Vodafone Group is buying a one-third interest in Mexico's Grupo Iusacell. The cash deal is worth $973.4 million. Vod...