SAN JOSE - Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, a national expert on technology law, has criticized courts and legis...

Opposing counsel in a sexual assault case are headed back to court. This time, it's personal. The 2nd District Court of Appeal...

RIVERSIDE - The Community Police Review Commission, the city's first civilian review board, will hold its first meeting today....

A 23-year-old Illinois man has pleaded no contest to a charge of felony vandalism stemming from an anti-fur march during the D...

Memorial services took place Wednesday for Leslie H. Greenfield, an administrative law judge for the office of administrative ...

When a carrier receives notice, it must conduct a thorough investigation of the loss, the claim and any potential bases for co...

SACRAMENTO - A federal judge breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday as attorneys challenging the constitutionality of a 1996 camp...

VALLEJO - The unusual evidentiary hearing over charges of prosecutorial misconduct in the death penalty conviction of Larry Ro...

America has no state religion, unless you consider the blind worship of "Founding Father." Our constitutional system of govern...

A two-year-old patent dispute between personal computer memory card rivals SanDisk Corp. and Lexar Media, Inc. has ended in a ...

It is a truism that complex business lawsuits invariably lead to complex insurance disputes. Although the insurance disputes e...

"Do you ever get butterflies when you talk in court?" my 10-year-old asked me. I smiled, wondering how much information he rea...

The California Women Lawyers Association will present "So You Want to Be a Judge," an all-day seminar at the Los Angeles Athle...

SAN DIEGO - An African-American man who alleged that police violated his civil rights at a Padres baseball game will receive $...

Robert Rosenkrantz's petition to overturn Gov. Gray Davis' denial of his parole was bounced out of court almost as soon as it ...

The producer of a fetish video depicting the torture and mutilation of mice by the heel of a shoe of a provocatively dressed w...

A report to be released today will suggest ways to reduce the Los Angeles police chief's ability to manipulate administrative ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman has sued America Online Inc., claiming its new version 6.0 software took over her computer ...

The abolitionists are at it again. For the next four days, San Francisco's Cathedral Hill Hotel will play host to a conference...

A high-school teacher whose color-blindness dashed his dreams of becoming a Riverside County sheriff's deputy cannot claim dis...

The Legal Services Corp. has awarded a two-year, $2.9 million legal-aid grant to San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Servic...

In what legal professionals called a tremendous victory for the district attorney's office, a jury Wednesday convicted three L...

SAN DIEGO - In the first comprehensive test of a 1998 ballot measure that increased cigarette taxes 50 cents per pack, a Super...

The presidential election impasse has given Americans another acute attack of ambivalence about attorneys and the legal system...

In election day votes that were not close, nearly 60 percent of Mendocino County voters supported Measure G, a proposition tha...

SAN JOSE - Nearly two years ago, Kate Canlis sat in the audience of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors' chambers and s...

Attorney Steve Filarsky never expected to get sued when he filed a public records request at his hometown city hall. But that'...

They've got names like Motion to Strike, the Wholly Rollers, Judgie's Jesters and the Civil Disobedients. The commissioner wea...

SAN JOSE - The ex-convict who sued Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy last year for disclosing his juvenile c...

SAN DIEGO - FBI Director Louis J. Freeh on Tuesday opened the nation's first multiagency, multijurisdictional computer forensi...