U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday challenged a new California law that would give the state authority to block any...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a summary reversal of a 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision concerning qualified immunity...

The opinion left the door open for defendants in different circumstances to raise privacy objections to the voter-approved DNA...

In a broad reading of federal labor law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that service advisors employed by auto dealership...

Multidistrict litigation related to Wells Fargo allegedly issuing unwanted automobile insurance policies heads to mediation.

Legal observers said the decision by several California cities and counties to side with the federal government’s lawsuit agai...

The Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP principal is the first female lawyer to hold the post.

Attorneys say the withdrawal could be related to the company’s bankruptcy.

Best Best & Krieger LLP has merged with Manhattan Beach-based Jenkins & Hogin LLP.

The San Francisco district attorney has asked the state Supreme Court to exercise its independent authority to review an appel...

What started as a string of tweets by a 34-year-old Harvard Law School lecturer has resulted in a movement to eliminate arbitr...

A recently introduced bill would bar sexually violent predators in state custody from voting in the area where they are incarc...

Former California Supreme Court Justice Armand Arabian, who served on every level of the state courts during his judicial care...

Forty years after Congress passed legislation that allowed President Jimmy Carter to reshape the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of App...

Business immigration attorneys said that while the case the memo stemmed from had a narrow fact pattern, it created more quest...

A coalition of environmental groups is challenging the County of San Diego’s approval of a climate action plan, saying it fai...

Jury selection begins Tuesday in Los Angeles in a lawsuit by a paralegal accusing her former employer, a title insurance compa...

A Sonoma County court has temporarily halted eviction proceedings against a tenant who claims she was sexually harassed by her...

A disbarred Orange County attorney accused of stealing from two clients has been jailed on felony charges that include unlawfu...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled in a long-running Proposition 65 trial that Starbucks and coffee makers di...

Stephen R. Reinhardt, a liberal icon of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who was outspoken about his judicial philosophy...

A federal judge in Sacramento rejected California’s request to transfer U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions’ challenge to the state’s ...

Multi-district class action litigation challenging the NCAA’s restrictions on financial aid is set for trial after a federal j...

The California Supreme Court has clarified its role in the state’s clemency process, saying a recommendation for clemency for ...

The East Bay school has applied to open a branch in San Jose, a proposal that has generated controversy.

While the LA legal market has recovered from the economic slide of 2008, large LA-based firms now have 20 percent fewer lawyer...

A credit firm that loaned drivers money to buy taxi medallions is suing a San Francisco city agency for $28 million, saying it...

A proposed class action has been filed against social media company Twitter Inc., accusing it of discriminating against older ...

A federal judge told attorneys for Facebook Inc. they should consider settling a putative privacy class action.

The union that represents Los Angeles police says it hopes a new alternative dispute resolution system will streamline a convo...