WASHINGTON - In a setback for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review a 9th U.S. C...
WASHINGTON - Wrestling with a closely watched business case, the U.S. Supreme Court expressed concern Tuesday about a plaintif...
An Ohio man is entitled to inherit from a biological father he never met face-to-face, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday i...
FORUM COLUMN - By Tony West - A lawyer for John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," knows something about defending prisoner...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Tuesday put on hold, possibly for months, an automobile-industry lawsuit challenging California's land...
A long-running fight over plans to redevelop a 52-building apartment complex in Venice enters a new phase today when a Malibu ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Rod S. Berman and Brian W. Kasell - The Supreme Court just spoke on a thorny procedural issue in patent liti...
SAN FRANCISCO - About 30 organizations that provide legal services and education to California's diverse population will get a...
Discipline
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Appeals Court Rules SFPD Waited Too Long to Discipline Officers
By Laura Ernden
Four San Francisco police officers who shot and killed a teenager riding in a fugitive's car in 1998 cannot be disciplined bec...
WASHINGTON - The White House appeared to back down Tuesday night over a territorial fight with California's senators concernin...
Intellectual Property
Game Producers Negotiate to Put Music in More Ears
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - If you were a kid in the '80s, had a kid in the '80s or acted like a kid in the '80s, you remember the sound Sup...
A top Bush administration official has touched a raw nerve by condemning major law firms for representing terrorism detainees....
A divided federal appeals court Tuesday vacated the 22-year sentence of an al-Qaida terrorist who planned to blow up Los Angel...
SACRAMENTO - A nonprofit child advocacy group proposed Tuesday that the state contribute more financial assistance to help fos...
FORUM COLUMN - By Mark Harrington - Who knew there were so many ways to aggravate in-house lawyers? The general counsel of Gui...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys who have appeared before veteran Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brett C. Klein have decidedly...
Sylvia Resnick considers herself "a pretty peppy person," despite her senior-citizen status. So it took a serious back spasm f...
LOS ANGELES - Miriam A. Vogel grew up under a billboard. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - International litigation firm Howrey kicked off 2007 by adding six attorneys to four of its offices, including...
WASHINGTON - For the third time this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circu...
SAN JOSE - A Colorado man's guilty plea to federal conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges in the Hewlett-Packard spy...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert L. Eisenbach III - What if you ship goods to a company that goes bankrupt? Some recent legal developm...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Federal Judge Will Rule on Constitutionality of Anti-Abortion Amendment
By Amelia Hansenn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge is set to rule on the constitutionality of a controversial provision that forbids state and lo...
LOS ANGELES - Change is never easy. But for a group of former panel attorneys in Los Angeles County's dependency courts, being...
FORUM COLUMN - By Richard M. Mosk - One of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants was a prominent judge in Iraq. Appellate-court Justi...
LOS ANGELES - Saying that Joshua Mogin brings expertise in an area of law the firm is "sorely underrepresented on the West Coa...
LOS ANGELES - A week after receiving permission to represent himself against charges of racketeering and wiretapping, onetime ...
SACRAMENTO - Newly sworn Attorney General Jerry Brown has named David Chaney as his chief assistant attorney general in charge...
LOS ANGELES - An old college friend opened the door for intellectual property lawyer Allan Jansen to jump from Jones Day to Gr...
Santa Clara County officials were wrong to threaten a deputy public defender with insubordination if he didn't fess up about m...