LOS ANGELES - Nancy Mintie and Mark Adams seemed like the perfect team when they got together in March 1999 to help Mintie's p...

E-mail users send and receive countless messages every day. Many messages are just so much junk, and I, for one, routinely del...

SAN JOSE -- A federal judge dealt the fatal blow Monday to a complaint by a former senior deputy in the San Jose city attorney...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the wake of the appellate reversal of his arson-for-profit conviction, retired San Francisco police officer...

When I read Judge Robert Beezer's opinion in the Napster case, I was, to borrow a phrase from the late Hubert Horatio Humphrey...

Gov. Gray Davis on Monday appointed Alan Skobin, vice president and general counsel of Galpin Motors Inc., to the Department o...

An attorney who was not involved in representing his former firm's client is not automatically disqualified when, with a new f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area environmental groups recently received a painful double lesson in the legal reality that even the mos...

SAN FRANCISCO - Charges of "politics" entered San Francisco's fatal dog mauling case Monday, when a judge reversed a court ord...

WASHINGTON - For "adult" businesses in Los Angeles, having a book-and-video retail store in the same space as a video arcade i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fighting ethics charges arising from her rancorous but unsuccessful reelection campaign, former Sonoma County ...

SAN DIEGO - U.S. Rep. Bob Filner has asked District Attorney Paul Pfingst to criminally charge five companies that sell electr...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled that Healthcare Partners Medical Group does not qualif...

The state Supreme Court on Monday rejected a convicted drug abuser's claim that a prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Cooley Godward announced Monday that well-known New York corporate lawyer Daniel Mummery is the fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the nearly three weeks since its opening, the New York office of Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to money laundering and a tax charge for helping to hide some of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a jury has a very limited role when a defendant challenges pros...

LOS ANGELES - Antonio Villaraigosa gripped-and-grinned his way through a crush of suits at a speechfest for Los Angeles' mayor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kimiko Burton grew up boycotting grapes and protesting the Vietnam war with her father, the state assemblyman ...

LOS ANGELES - Chilled and damp from helping 100 environmentally concerned citizens clean debris from the Ballona Wetlands duri...

LOS ANGELES - Steve Soboroff enjoys standing out in a crowd, especially when the crowd includes five politicians vying for the...

LOS ANGELES - Give back the $60 million! It will make us feel so good! That heartfelt and touching plea for gobs of money was ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Forcing defendants to waive their right to obtain potentially exculpatory evidence from the government as part...

LOS ANGELES - Congressman Xavier Becerra doesn't look like a perennial dark-horse candidate who defied his party twice to stag...

LOS ANGELES - Joel Wachs traces his calling to public service to the first grade, when he was a blackboard monitor. A member o...

LOS ANGELES - As the son of a legendary Los Angeles County supervisor who served for 40 years - and a man who himself has held...

Whatever you may think about Napster, the 9th Circuit's opinion dramatically and unwisely has upset the balance in an old disp...

Among actions announced Monday, March 5, 2001 by the justices were:

Today, Dicta presents the first in an occasional look at the most trenchant quotes culled from our news pages.