A state appellate court reinstated a lawsuit Wednesday brought against a prominent San Francisco employment lawyer by one of h...

The 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals reversed an immigration court and found whistle blowing against government corruption is groun...

A Ninth Circuit appeals panel played its cards close to the vest Wednesday, not giving any clear signs during oral arguments w...

Neither side scored a decisive touchdown Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the National Footb...

Movie studio Lionsgate Entertainment has emerged as the leading bidder to take over the rights to the Terminator franchise wit...

"Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien has hired litigator Patty Glaser to represent him in negotiations with NBC following the net...

Sue Burrell of the Youth Law Center explains the serious ramifications of juvenile adjudications and why defense attorneys nee...

A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge has ruled that Mount Diablo Unified School District owes more than $2.3 million to ...

Split along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court prevented the high-profile Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco from bei...

Laurie Juengert of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost discusses legislation to increase school accountability and efforts to provid...

Consumers and gemologists nationwide have accused Macy's, the nation's No. 1 department store chain, of knowingly selling fake...

Peter Gerber and his wife, Miriam are among at least 550 plaintiffs who have sued the top manufacturers of the MRI dyes for al...

The Mesereau Community Legal Foundation opened its new Mesereau Free Legal Clinic on Saturday at the New Direction Christian C...

Jeremiah Ho of Whittier Law School analyzes Kairy v. SuperShuttle International and its impact on driver lawsuits and p...

When attorney Samuel Jefferson Frazier's home office near Ramona burned down in 2007, he moved to Arizona but kept on practici...

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On Tuesday, three federal judges, who had previously ruled in August that overcrowding was causing poor conditions in prison m...

All new buildings in the state will soon have to be easy on the environment, thanks to passage of a major initiative of Gov. A...

Just one day after creating an exploratory committee, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced Tuesday that...

Riverside County officials decided Tuesday to offer early retirement to 78 Superior Court employees to attempt to avoid layoff...

Prosecutors are recommending Don Haidl, the ex-Orange County assistant sheriff who was the main witness in the corruption tria...

A county-run probation camp for juvenile offenders routinely denied residents a basic education and failed to prepare their re...

A black inmate convicted of murder and serving a life sentence at High Desert State Prison can sue the warden for racial discr...

Marriage is a basic civil right that has been withheld over time from various groups of people in the United States in a punit...

Clare Pastore of USC Gould School of Law says the purpose of AB 590 is to examine the effects of expanding assistance to low-i...

Seven months after a federal judge dismissed the campaign finance case against prominent Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce O'D...

Patrick Santos of The Law Offices of Ronald Richards & Associates writes about the issue of "innocent-convicts" and the at...

D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenza provides clarity to the area of law governing employees disabled by pregnancy.

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The U.S. Supreme Court seemed sympathetic Tuesday to a man seeking the return of his son to Chile after his ex-wife violated a...