The 9th Circuit panel affirmed U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria’s decision the city violated its contract with a developer t...

This latest challenge comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom faces opposition on several fronts to his policies to combat the coronavirus ...

Contra Costa County also reopened its courthouses for the first time in more than two months on Tuesday, with temperature chec...

With just over six months to prepare for the initial phase of the shift, leaders in Los Angeles and San Francisco counties are...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Victoria S. Kaufman was reappointed to a second 14-year term, effective May 2.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali will scrutinize the vote when he considers whether to confirm PG&E’s plan in proceedi...

California cities and counties that have sued a host of energy companies for hiding the impact of climate change on their comm...

SB939 aims to bar evictions of commercial tenants while Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency orders relating to the pandemic remain i...

The law would significantly change that process of juror challenges in an unprecedented way, said Robert Weisberg, professor o...

“Coercive control describes an ongoing and multi-pronged strategy, with tactics that include manipulation, humiliation, isolat...

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP brought on two litigators to bolster its automotive practice.

Two food stamp recipients accused the U.S. Department of Agriculture of unlawfully withholding extra emergency food relief to ...

The ACLU was denied their request to access the government’s application to hide certain spy data from public access in a sout...

Courts and attorneys are historically resistant to change, and that’s true even in the midst of a pandemic.

Although lower federal and state courts in California have ruled First Amendment rights are not absolute, especially when weig...

A pipeline company criminally convicted for the 2015 Refugio oil spill in Santa Barbara County lost all its motions for decert...

The Legislature has been attempting to evaluate the probable historic reductions without knowing the full picture of state tax...

A $1 million COVID-19 emergency response fund for California's incarcerated has been established by the Horowitz Family Founda...

The family of a man who died of Covid-19 complications filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his nursing home Thursday, alleg...

The restaurateur argues public health objectives in Monterey County have been met and there is no longer a crisis requiring co...

The Northern District of California delayed criminal trials until July and postponed civil trials until October due to the COV...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. teamed up with the committee representing wildfire victims Thursday to defend a $13.5 billion s...

The company has been in touch with several universities who are still unsure whether they will have people on campus by fall, ...

Michael Rasmussen, a local prosecutor since 1998, succeeds Judge Jayne Lee, who was elevated by Gov. Gavin Newsom in December.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. presented Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. and the joint venture partners with a Nat...

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has been reviewing transactions for years, but had never required fees for fil...

Businesses confronting new workplace regulations can get help to renegotiate commercial leases, apply for government relief pr...

With their class action hopes dashed for now and no indication they will receive restitution in the Santa Barbara criminal cas...

Hahn & Hahn LLP in Pasadena launched a bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice when it added two new attorneys thi...

Tesla dropped a challenge to Alameda County's stay-at-home orders Wednesday after being allowed to reopen its Fremont factory ...