SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis, whose administration startled the state's agribusiness community last month by withdrawing s...

A grieving couple who watched in horror as images of their dead son appeared on a segment of "LAPD - Life on the Beat" have su...

PHOENIX - William Scholl lost his job, his retirement savings and hundreds of thousands of dollars defending his case. Late l...

A two-day delay in publicly reporting a $5 million lawsuit settlement approved by county supervisors in closed session has le...

Neither a car wreck nor a misplaced letter is a good enough excuse for missing a deadline to contest a decision by a Californ...

The president of the American Bar Association will meet next month with Attorney General Janet Reno in hopes of resolving the...

Beneath the swirl of controversy over Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Clinton is a quieter but ongoing debate over...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has thrown out most of the claims in a class-action lawsuit filed against Intuit Inc. f...

The way attorney Alan L. Isaacman sees it, his longtime client Larry Flynt has been one small mistake, one tiny foul-up, one ...

SACRAMENTO - It was the first meeting of a commission created by the Legislature to review California's Political Reform Act ...

The sizable number of nonlawyers serving as mediators and arbitrators makes it nearly impossible for a judicial entity to regu...

Granted, competition for entry-level jobs at top law firms is fierce. But by his own admission, UCLA law school student Ramon...

RIVERSIDE - It's been more than a year since the passage of the Trial Court Funding Act, or AB233, and judicial officials in ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Thursday postponed ruling on whether to grant a preliminary injunction against Vietnamese ...

SAN JOSE - The much-delayed Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case, which was filed in 1997, is scheduled to go to trial bef...

A music producer has sued singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg and his accountants at the now-defunct Coopers & Lybrand, claim...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jackson, Tufts, Cole & Black, a 35-year-old Bay Area firm, is closing its doors. "The partners of the fir...

A proposed comprehensive bill, written by a Los Angeles prosecutor, would ban anyone under a domestic violence restraining or...

Perhaps foreshadowing action Monday by the American Bar Association's policy-setting body, the organization's Board of Govern...

In a victory for the Church of Scientology International, a state appeal court Thursday made it harder for a longtime adversa...

SACRAMENTO - For reproductive health-care advocates, particularly in California, the legal and political environment for abor...

SACRAMENTO - The following quantifies the rising influence of Catholic hospitals and their impact on access to reproductive h...

VENTURA - After biting into a beef burrito from Taco Bell that he thought was a vegetarian item, Mukesh Rai claimed he would ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A war of words erupted within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, with five dissenting judges acc...

Los Angeles County prosecutors Wednesday voiced irritation that a Municipal Court commissioner, acting on a probation departm...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rejecting appeals from both sides, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to decide the extent to ...

A tangled dispute over the film, television and video rights to the comic book character Spiderman became less twisted Wednes...

In a volatile and unprecedented case with more twists and turns than a roller coaster, a Los Angeles Juvenile Court bench off...

Comedian Craig Shoemaker, Magic Johnson's sidekick on the former basketball great's ill-fated talk show, wants $10 million fr...

SANTA MARIA - Sharlene Miller came to Santa Maria's Town Center Mall last December to catch a comedy at the local theater. Sh...