Retired Santa Clara County Judge Catherine A. Gallagher has spent decades resolving disputes, combining deep probate experienc...

California regulators approved a settlement requiring PG&E to pay a $21 million penalty and fund an outside review stemmin...

A Los Angeles judge set the first trial over FAIR Plan's handling of smoke-damage claims from the 2025 wildfires for October 2...

California's closely watched antitrust bill survived the Senate Appropriations Committee but will move forward without provisi...

A federal judge rejected Meta's bid to bar former engineer Arturo Bejar from testifying at next week's social media addiction ...

A federal judge appeared inclined to restrict warrantless immigration arrests in Southern California while weighing whether ad...

A Justice Department investigation found California's two primary women's prisons failed to protect incarcerated women from se...

The settlement ends nearly 13 years of litigation and awards three groups of whistleblowers a combined 21% share of the recovery.

A Los Angeles judge rejected Ray J's anti-SLAPP bid against Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner, finding a jury could conclude his ...

U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts rejected objections from California and 12 other states that questioned whether lobbying im...

An eight-person federal jury was seated Wednesday to hear claims by dozens of state attorneys general accusing Meta of mislead...

A newly unsealed grand jury indictment charges Nick Reiner with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob...

A federal judge delayed a final ruling on whether 7-Eleven can expand its defenses against Pop Mart's intellectual property cl...

A federal judge ruled that California's SB 261 is not preempted by federal securities law, finding the measure requires compan...

The Commission on Judicial Performance will hear oral argument Oct. 7 in its misconduct case against Los Angeles County Judge ...

Anthropic urged a San Francisco judge to find Reddit's state law claims preempted by the Copyright Act, while Reddit argued it...

A San Mateo County jury found that a driver who was 17 at the time liable for the deaths and the girls' injuries.

The federal appeals court found that federal courts have jurisdiction and that forum non conveniens cannot be used to dismiss...

Superior Court Judge Alexander C.D. Giza found a "high level" of substantive unconscionability because the National Football L...

Federal prosecutors have charged Heidi Beirich, the former director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project,...

A Los Angeles judge tentatively rejected insurers' bid to establish Edison's inverse condemnation liability for the Eaton Fire...

Proposed constitutional amendment revives a decades-old Republican push to remove party labels from the state's top elections ...

Veteran bankruptcy attorney begins 14-year term in Sacramento as filings across the Eastern District climb 20%

Attorneys for Sutter Bay Hospitals asked an Alameda County judge to consider recusal over a potential conflict of interest aft...

Magistrate questions whether revamped process can replace forensic imaging after agents failed to produce work-related communi...

LocateSmarter must pay $116,490 for requiring consumers to provide sensitive information to stop the sale of their data, in th...

After weeks of objections from prosecutors and public defenders, the State Bar admissions chief says the agency has reversed i...

San Francisco public defenders say chronic courtroom congestion cannot justify delays beyond statutory speedy-trial deadlines ...

Policyholders and California FAIR Plan are at odds over when bellwether trials should begin and how broadly discovery should p...

Recent incidents involving autonomous models raise questions over safeguards, state defenses, and regulation.