LOS ANGELES - Silvia Saucedo is stepping down from the Los Angeles Police Commission to become a commissioner with the city's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appellate court threw out a landmark $21.7 million judgment against a tobacco company Wednesda...

LOS ANGELES - The resounding defeat by Inglewood voters of a Wal-Mart initiative to build a megastore is unlikely to deter the...

LOS ANGELES - A Palm Springs homeowners association acted unreasonably in ordering a ban on pets five years after a veterinari...

Forum Column - By William J. Aceves - Should victims of genocide and other violent crimes have the right to seek redress for t...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Jill Faulkner McNeal and James M. Harris - Attorneys take advantage of the right to oral arg...

Forum Column - By Jonathan D. Lewis - It is axiomatic that the compassion of any government can be measured by the extent to w...

Book Review - "The Best Awful," Carrie Fisher (Simon & Schuster 2003) - By John Shepard Wiley Jr. - It's a painful thing t...

LOS ANGELES - After a grueling weekend of competition, the San Marcos High School mock-trial team from Santa Barbara County wo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A major Solano County automobile seller will pay $550,000 to seven former employees of Afghani descent who cla...

SAN FRANCISCO - Henry Welland Howard Jr., the civic-minded founding partner of San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canad...

LOS ANGELES - A public memorial service for former U.S. District Judge Harry L. Hupp will take place Thursday at the federal c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Francis P. Bassios, nationally recognized for his contributions to attorney regulation for the State Bar of Ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Maureen Kallins appeared rude and scornful to Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Horner in 2...

SAN FRANCISCO - A pledge transportation planners made more than 20 years ago to boost Bay Area mass transit ridership is not a...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday appointed Deputy Attorney General Evelyn Matteucci as general counsel and d...

LOS ANGELES - A defendant cannot be convicted twice for stealing from two bedrooms in the same apartment, a state appellate co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate Justice Vance W. Raye has been elected chairman of the state Commission on Judicial Performance. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The day before Thanksgiving in 1999, 17-year-old Chanti Prattipati died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roy L. Paul recently praised the arguments made by lawyers who were representin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sitting on the federal appellate bench, Judge William C. Canby appears unflappable. He put that quality to use...

WASHINGTON - In its latest legal challenge to the government's "no-fly" list for air travelers, the American Civil Liberties U...

MALIBU - Seven years after he accepted, then quickly rejected, a similar offer, former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr ha...

Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Charles S. Doskow - It will be some time before the legality of same-sex marriages, rec...

Forum Column - By Peter Shorett - As goes science, so goes the legal system. And science has begun to transform all our tradit...

Forum Column - By Michael K. Bohn - Intelligence reporting to the president is front-page news today. The commission investiga...

Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - The latest Santa Clara County Bar Association survey, released last month, has promp...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials today will recommend paying $250,000 to a father who claimed social workers contrib...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Edward Heidig as director of the Office of Administrative Law, a post th...

LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeals has declined without comment to hear Public Defender Michael Judge's challenge...