As chair of the Commission on Judicial Performance, Nanci Nishimura’s primary challenge is balancing an obligation of confiden...

Attorneys expect the decision to have far-reaching implications on the basis as it applies to interstate commerce.

Twelve judicial officers have been selected by the Judicial Council to assess next steps as the state moves toward a new model...

A blind man who says a national fast food chain’s website violates the Americans with Disabilities Act may continue his lawsui...

An Oakland federal judge said it would violate their Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination.

Writing that the answer "could have a significant impact on California workers," a 9th U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel...

California immigration courts will be the hardest hit by a government shutdown that is severely delaying deportation hearings,...

In naming Justice Martin J. Jenkins as his judicial appointments secretary, Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken a different approach t...

Star litigator Robyn Crowther has left Boies Schiller Flexner LLP to join Steptoe & Johnson LLP as the firm's Los Angeles ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against traders in California, Ukraine, and Russia on Tuesday, allegi...

The officers promised the county’s executives the new sheriff will abide by the decree despite comments he made after he was e...

The Commission on Judicial Performance has launched formal proceedings against 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Jeffrey W....

The bankruptcy declaration by Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. on Monday is a much greater threat to the company than the Chap...

A group of nuns appealed the weekend decision by a Northern District judge that enjoined rules instituted by the Trump adminis...

Daniel F. Lula, a business and employment litigator from Payne & Fears LLP, has joined BakerHostetler.

A Fresno attorney accused of trying to get a plaintiff who accused his client of labor violations deported, settled the retali...

Wildfire victims arguing the Pacific Gas and Electric Corp. is responsible for damages from the state’s most destructive blaze...

Justice Martin Jenkins of the 1st District Court of Appeal will be Gov. Gavin Newsom's judicial appointments secretary.

If a fringe Arizona Senate candidate wants to pursue a First Amendment lawsuit over his Twitter ban, he'll have to do it on th...

Kevin Dineen, general counsel for LasikPlus, wants to get people out of their eyeglasses.

The Commission on Judicial Performance has launched formal proceedings against Court of Appeal Justice Jeffrey W. Johnson, cit...

A federal jury on Friday approved the forfeiture of the Mongols biker club’s trademarked logos, connecting a cartoon of a musc...

Gavin Newsom, said he will release a more detailed plan later on how he intends to dismantle the system.

Federal law enforcement officers in California may soon be barred from obtaining search warrants in state court, depending on ...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes has recommended the 2006 terrorism conviction of a Lodi man be vacated.

A tweet from President Donald Trump regarding a much debated high-skill visa program likely referred to a proposed regulation ...

A shareholder lawsuit against Google parent company Alphabet Inc. claimed its board of directors approved substantial payouts ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether California labor laws can be applied to oil riggers working on ...

Whether a juror in the Todd McNair NCAA defamation trial whose employer Latham & Watkins LLP previously filed briefs for t...

A school for special needs children is fighting an order that it can no longer accept public funds after the death of an autis...