Arturo De La Paz Rodriguez had an interesting and lucrative job. He became a foot soldier in the government's war on drugs, wo...

Who did you vote for? "I voted for Garcetti. I'm afraid to change horses in the middle of the stream," one man at the courthou...

Pro basketball player Latrell Sprewell failed Tuesday to overturn a 68-game suspension imposed on him after one of the most in...

REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo County officials are celebrating the dismissal of the last defendant in the long-running and very cos...

The justices on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2000 announced these actions:

Reporter's Notebook, Donna Domino - Judiciary. Hit pieces and last-minute mailers featuring misleading photos, phony endorseme...

Proposition 36 seeks to foster drug rehabilitation by copying the treatment parts of existing programs but leaving out the tee...

Services will take place Nov. 18 for retired Beverly Hills business attorney Marcus Kalb. Kalb died Oct. 27 at the Beverly Hil...

Three partners and four associates have left San Diego's Hillyer & Irwin and joined the San Diego office of Cleveland's Ar...

No matter where your voting booth is, when you're handed your ballot today you're sure to face an alphabet soup of ballot init...

'A gentlemanly sort' was the description given by the detective who brought the case. ...

A controversial San Francisco misdemeanor judge added to his list of unorthodox rulings Monday when he held a courtroom specta...

Attorneys representing corporate entities should pay attention to the nature of their interactions with individuals associated...

An appellate court on Monday affirmed dismissal of a police officer's malicious prosecution suit against civil rights attorney...

It's that time of the election season again - time for a few cranky pundits in the press to begin their quadrennial dithyramb ...

When Bryan Stevenson spoke recently to a group of UCLA law students about his work representing death row inmates in Alabama, ...

How much is a reputation worth? A state appellate court has ruled that it's "impossible" to say whether a Sonoma County develo...

A system of clandestine government payments in exchange for information has grown into a cottage industry that includes profes...

In an 11th-hour attempt to discredit one of four officers on trial for alleged corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether magazine and newspaper publishers infringe the copyrights of ...

Underwear manufacturer Fruit of the Loom has got its knickers in a twist with the well-known law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris,...

The city of Los Angeles tentatively has agreed to pay nearly $11 million to settle 29 lawsuits filed by victims of corrupt Ram...

A Los Angeles prosecutor improperly urged jurors to impose the death penalty by invoking "God's law" as justification in four ...

The California Supreme Court decided Monday what kind of milk Californians should drink. From now on, the court said, only mil...

Irvine communications chip maker Broadcom Corp. is acquiring Allayer Communications, a privately held developer of optical net...

Oakland's Zhone Technologies has filed an initial public offering valued at $345 million. Zhone Technologies develops subscrib...

Calabassas' Ixia has gone public in an offering valued at $71.5 million. Ixia is developing a family of platforms for testing ...

The 9th Circuit just heard oral arguments in a high-profile right-of-publicity case. ...

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. has agreed to acquire Cerprobe Corp. in a deal valued at $225 million. Kulicke and Soffa, ba...

Senior- and middle-school teams from throughout the county will participate in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 23rd ann...