9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge M. Margaret McKeown was elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences.

The American Civil Liberties Union’s argument, filed Thursday, contested the state’s response on Tuesday that mandating mass r...

More than 40,000 beach goers were reported last weekend in Newport Beach, where officials closed parking lots but kept the sho...

Supporters who say they have 988,000 signatures to get the proposition on the ballot, said voters are overwhelmed because of t...

In a sharply-worded reprimand of its safety performance, U.S. District Judge William Alsup accused the company of being unable...

To help public safety agencies around the nation deal with the fallout of the COVID-19 crisis, the DOJ has begun doling out gr...

Reversing an appellate court decision, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday a company accused by four counties of unfair bus...

The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution usually enrolls Pepperdine’s own students into three different programs, but since...

The complaint claims that allowing the practice, in which a third party collects and then submits sealed absentee ballots, vio...

In many courts, a backlog is building due to cases having been filed but not processed. Kern County has seen a 350% drop in ci...

Dirk B. Paloutzian is a partner with Baker Manock & Jensen PC and a former deputy district attorney also known for his civ...

Responding to one of two custody-related writ petitions, state attorney says jail releases should remain in county control.

Judge Vince Chhabria ordered ICE to begin facilitating individual bail applications for more than 400 immigrants at the Mesa V...

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye initially ordered a 60-day extension on March 23. The order issued Wednesday brings the t...

The decision by Judge Samantha P. Jessner is the latest judicial setback for opponents of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Project Roomkey ...

“Once we are able to begin jury trials, we will have to start with criminal cases, which are entitled to statutory priority,” ...

A contingent of conservative judges objected to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ Wednesday decision not to reconsider a ...

“The Judicial Council did not intend to suspend the array of statutes governing bail, as well as the superior courts’ inherent...

J&J class action over Proposition 65 claim gets thrown out by San Diego judge.

Attorneys will be arguing over whether the Admiralty Extension Act or the Death on the High Seas Act applies to their cases.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned of a coming “lawsuit pandemic” and said he wants liability protection for b...

Since Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye gave local judges the ability to adopt their own rules to address the impact of the...

The litigation stems from an ordinance aimed at regulating sober living homes and protecting people who are recovering there, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed 14 superior court judges Tuesday. His choices include the director of litigation and advocacy for ...

Class actions have been sprouting up against universities nationwide fighting to claw back campus service fees as schools have...

The defendant, an alleged Russian hacker, prosecutors and a U.S. judge all favored resuming the trial on May 4, but 11 of 16 j...

The state Supreme Court asked for expedited briefing on a writ petition over virus payments to those in the U.S. illegally.

Companies that employ many of the workers who would benefit from the assistance — including Uber and Lyft — do not pay into th...

An appellate panel is considering whether the Judicial Council's emergency order for jail inmates to be released without bail ...