San Diego Deputy DA Wendy Patrick started playing violin before kindergarten.

Attorneys charged with defending an African-American alleged gang member in a death penalty murder case moved to disqualify th...

A U.S. judge has commented for the first time on Orange County’s jail informant controversy, chiding federal prosecutors.

Attorneys packed the aisles of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow’s courtroom, forcing his clerk to bring out ad...

A workplace review committee organized by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the wake of former Judge Alex Kozinzki’s re...

A coalition of local governments, water agencies and environmentalists have sued to the State Water Resources Control Board, c...

A federal judge seemed all but certain Wednesday to allow lawsuits filed by California and San Francisco against the federal g...

A federal judge has reopened discovery in a challenge to the cash bail system in San Francisco on Wednesday, more than three y...

Thomas Friel, the former head of Cooley LLP’s intellectual property litigation group, has moved to King & Spalding LLP. Fr...

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed two appeal court justices, promoted another and named 25 superior court judges across the state on ...

In a setback for immigration advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a class of plaintiffs who argued that ...

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel said the U.S. government has authority to waive environmental laws.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled that sovereign immunity does not apply to patents involved in inter partes review,...

In a First Amendment challenge to Proposition 65, a federal judge’s preliminary injunction order has blocked the state from re...

A class action was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that a transnational port trucking company misclassified drive...

The Department of Justice has been foiled for a second time in its attempt to bring a False Claims Act suit against a major he...

The National Labor Relations Board has overturned a December decision, returning to a previously established precedent that lo...

Comcast Corp., one of the world’s largest cable, news and communications companies, on Tuesday announced an offer to buy Sky P...

The Board of Immigration Appeals will expand from 17 members to 21, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. This will giv...

Former acting U.S. Attorney Sandra Brown has turned away from government practice to join a Beverly Hills tax firm.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has asked the District of Columbia court for guidance on whether the estate of a bankrup...

With the possibility of a legislative fix to the DACA debate looking dim and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to consider...

State Attorney General Xavier Becerra failed to wrap up his party’s endorsement at the California Democratic Convention in San...

Opponents say a 9th Circuit three-judge panel ruling for the company would have left consumers vulnerable.

A divided state Supreme Court ruled teenage kidnapper-rapists should not have to wait 25 years for a parole hearing.

A complaint filed Monday is seeking to reunite a mother and daughter requesting asylum in the U.S. and act as a legal test cas...

Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero had harsh words for lawyers representing Law School Admission Council Inc. and told them he w...

A bill pending in the Assembly would cut the statute of limitations for construction defect cases from 10 years to five.

While some say the industry is booming, others point to bank and tax problems as well as fear of Feds.

The plaintiff claims the company’s sale or bankruptcy could threaten their lawsuit.