Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, widely regarded as the most influential member of the U.S. Supreme Court because of his willingnes...

County counsels for Santa Clara and San Francisco asked the California Supreme Court to take the drastic step of completely ba...

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s retirement announcement generated discordant responses Wednesday from political leaders, lawmaker...

A group fighting for the legal rights of sex offenders has sued to force the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to c...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that public sector unions cannot charge "agency fees" to nonmembers, setting the stage for ch...

A superior court jury deliberated for an hour before delivering $28 million in punitive damages to a woman who sued her former...

A jury ruled Wednesday that Beats Audio LLC must pay one of its former business partner $25 million for unpaid royalties.

Gov. Jerry Brown nominated two new justices to the 5th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday whiile appointing 10 superior cou...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. settled its 7-year-old patent infringement lawsuit with Apple Inc. Wednesday after a San Jose fed...

A disbarred Orange County attorney was sentenced to 48 months in prison this week by a federal judge for a mortgage modificati...

An official at a Japan-based manufacturer of electrolytic capacitors pleaded guilty Wednesday to price fixing in San Francisco...

Riverside County family law Judge Timothy Freer gives early tentatives to spur settlement.

Nearly 75 years later, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday withdrew its stamp of approval from President Franklin Roosevelt’s in...

California’s law requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to provide information to patients about state-funded access to the...

A federal judge dismissed a case brought against the world’s five largest private oil companies by the Oakland and San Francis...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Donald J. Trump’s travel ban is a significant confirmation of executive ...

Attorneys from San Francisco law firm Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn have secured a $47.5 million settlement on behalf of a...

The court also heard that she spoke to another juror about the issue after she was questioned in camera and that the attorney ...

The California Senate Judiciary Committee approved an internet privacy bill on Tuesday that includes significant new powers fo...

The U.S. and California attorneys general disagreed over whether entering the country without legal documentation is the same ...

The complaint challenges the federal government’s policy of separating immigrant parents from their children.

A Montana man charged with violating the Endangered Species Act for killing a grizzly bear and later misplacing the carcass wi...

In appellate court, an attorney argued that a superior court judge abused his discretion with the gross reduction of fees earn...

Excerpted text of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ remarks to the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Los Angeles.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals breached federal procedure law b...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an unusual procedural case involving judicial tweeting Monday.

A federal appellate panel has ruled that the “lodestar” approach for calculating attorney fees should serve as the starting po...

Monday’s proceedings in the criminal negligence trial over a 2015 oil spill on Refugio State Beach were marked by multiple ove...

Reporting one’s political opponent for an alleged ethical violation has become an increasingly common tactic in political camp...

Adobe Systems Inc. has named Dana Rao its next executive vice president and general counsel.