SAN FRANCISCO - Flushed with anger under intense cross-examination, veteran attorney Patrick S. Hallinan testified Wednesday ...

^^Intellectual Property^^ College Try No State Liability for Patent Infringement and False Advertising The decisions have wid...

MONTEREY - Supreme Count Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen G. Breyer on Wednesday told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

A Los Angeles judge Wednesday refused to dismiss on constitutional grounds the apparent first case filed under a new state la...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chanler, a pioneering Proposition 65 attorney, lost a bid Wednesday to have the San Francisco Superi...

SANTA ANA - An 83-year-old man who lived alone recently was approached by his son, who asked for money. When the man refused,...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has officially come out on the side of a spurned French cartoon character named Marsupi...

Nursing mothers are now welcome to breast-feed their babies at Borders bookstores in California under terms of a settlement a...

He's a bright kid with a refreshing sense of humor who has lived in foster care since he was 7 years old. Child advocates say...

Although there are a variety of transitional housing programs for foster youth in Los Angeles County, each has its own entran...

SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has filed a suit against Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly and three of its partners, allegi...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis is expected today to announce a resolution of the legal battle over Proposition 187 that substan...

The Los Angeles County prosecutor who angered his bosses by questioning in open court whether they had granted leniency to a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sticking to California's strict rule of automatic disqualification in conflict-of-interest situations, the Ca...

^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ Court reporting firms in San Diego are feeling the pinch these days, and it's coming fro...

By Ralph O. Williams III and Michael P. King Litigators and mediators are sometimes confounded by the oxymoron of court-order...

By Mike Horner Defying all logic or pretense of acting for the greater common good, California's personal injury lawyers and ...

SAN DIEGO - A 68-year-old documentary filmmaker and ex-convict who is accused of dangling big dreams to lure $400,000 from tw...

Despite protests from community activists and a state senator, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inside the Board of Supervisors chamber, where the fire alarm buzzed from the body heat of too many onlookers...

SANTA ANA - Caltrans has awarded a $1.4 million settlement to the owner of an Orange County Motel 6 - an action coming after ...

SAN JOSE - After winning a federal patent infringement lawsuit, Intel Corp. turned the tables Tuesday and filed a malicious p...

Rasheda Daniel will be a senior at Inglewood High School this fall. A straight-A student, she feels she is not given the same...

IRVINE - Irvine-based investment bank Cruttenden Roth Inc. has filed a lawsuit against its founder and former president, cont...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston of the Baltimore Sun threw down the gauntlet to judges early at th...

Gerald Chaleff, a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and a longtime criminal defense lawyer, was unanimously elect...

SACRAMENTO - Nearly seven months into his tenure as governor, Democrat Gov. Gray Davis has repeatedly dodged the legal contro...

In a meticulous, sweeping opinion applying both California statutory law and the First Amendment, the California Supreme Cour...

MONTEREY - A panel of judges, academics and legal journalists, appearing at the annual 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Odd as it may sound to anyone who hasn't toured the Tenderloin recently, the gritty San Francisco neighborhoo...