Attorneys for State Auditor Elaine Howle have filed a request to take their appeal against the Commission on Judicial Performa...

The act, intended to stop traffickers, could have the opposite effect, according to critics.

Real estate and investment firm CBRE filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against former employees, accusing them of stea...

A jury has ruled in favor of a former deputy district attorney in a discrimination retaliation lawsuit against Napa County, aw...

An attorney who specializes in recovering art looted by Nazis has set his sights on a more contemporary prize: an FBI search w...

The land developer Colonies Partners LP has filed an $80 million lawsuit against San Bernardino County, alleging conspiracy, r...

Lincoln Law School of San Jose has opposed a peer institution’s application to come to the city

Gov. Jerry Brown’s choices have diversified the state judiciary, but the bench does not reflect the state population.

In a significant victory for activists trying to protect California’s sea otters, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled ...

Elan Zektser, who completed five trials resulting in life prison sentences last year, was named the 2017 Countywide Prosecutor...

UC Berkeley has announced it reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to amend cam...

A Los Angeles federal judge denied Snap Inc. a quick win in a patent infringement lawsuit that targets one of the core technol...

A group of Vietnamese refugees with criminal convictions has sued the federal government over their prolonged detention in wha...

San Diego Deputy DA Wendy Patrick started playing violin before kindergarten.

Attorneys charged with defending an African-American alleged gang member in a death penalty murder case moved to disqualify th...

A U.S. judge has commented for the first time on Orange County’s jail informant controversy, chiding federal prosecutors.

Attorneys packed the aisles of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow’s courtroom, forcing his clerk to bring out ad...

A workplace review committee organized by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the wake of former Judge Alex Kozinzki’s re...

A coalition of local governments, water agencies and environmentalists have sued to the State Water Resources Control Board, c...

A federal judge seemed all but certain Wednesday to allow lawsuits filed by California and San Francisco against the federal g...

A federal judge has reopened discovery in a challenge to the cash bail system in San Francisco on Wednesday, more than three y...

Thomas Friel, the former head of Cooley LLP’s intellectual property litigation group, has moved to King & Spalding LLP. Fr...

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed two appeal court justices, promoted another and named 25 superior court judges across the state on ...

In a setback for immigration advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a class of plaintiffs who argued that ...

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel said the U.S. government has authority to waive environmental laws.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled that sovereign immunity does not apply to patents involved in inter partes review,...

In a First Amendment challenge to Proposition 65, a federal judge’s preliminary injunction order has blocked the state from re...

A class action was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that a transnational port trucking company misclassified drive...

The Department of Justice has been foiled for a second time in its attempt to bring a False Claims Act suit against a major he...

The National Labor Relations Board has overturned a December decision, returning to a previously established precedent that lo...