Neutral Luis Rodriguez says establishing trust with litigants requires more than a formula.

Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco granted preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion settlement between au...

Triumph Foods sued to overturn California's Proposition 12, arguing the animal-confinement law violates federal meat regulatio...

A dramatic change in how inter partes reviews are handled under interim U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan ...

A judge overruled Pepsi's and Coke's demurrer to a Los Angeles County lawsuit accusing them of misleading consumers about plas...

A judge took under submission a demurrer by Imhoff & Associates amid a legal dispute over marketing assets, with allegatio...

Law firms are facing intense competition, prompting them to explore alternatives to traditional debt.

Riverside County criminal trial judge accepts sometimes there's no good ending.

Maurice Hastings spent nearly four decades behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. Now, after DNA evidence identified the re...

A federal judge rejected Tom Girardi's request for release during appeal, ruling his legal arguments--including challenges to ...

U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd denied Grimmway's bids to toss the case and to deny class certification, allowing the Califo...

Brown, appointed to the bench in 2010, has presided over Sacramento's drug, reentry, mental health and homeless courts, earnin...

Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl denied social media companies' motion to exclude plaintiffs' experts, finding their testi...

A Los Angeles judge ruled Paramount's website terms don't violate California's Yelp law, finding they apply only to conduct on...

Attorneys for authors and publishers filed new responses this week seeking to satisfy Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup...

A former Orange County prosecutor alleges unwanted advances from a unit head; District Attorney Todd Spitzer's office says the...

The Justice Department urged a federal judge to reject a bid to toss an indictment, arguing the Federal Vacancies Reform Act a...

Southern California Edison seeks to recover $2 billion in Woolsey Fire costs through rate hikes, potentially increasing custom...

A federal judge tentatively ruled a fourth jury trial is needed to decide punitive damages in the trade dress infringement bat...

Scholars say the state can bind local police but likely can't enforce the new mask rule against federal agents; other student-...

Housing nonprofits sued Los Angeles, alleging City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto and Councilmember Traci Park unlawfully obstr...

The five-year stipulated judgment requires notice, photo documentation, and bag-and-tag storage timelines, with a built-in dis...

Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to stay a ruling blocking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from endi...

Cardrooms alleged state gambling regulators collected inflated fees for years; Judge Lauri A. Damrell signed off on a $43.3 mi...

Altadena tenants reached a settlement with Los Angeles County requiring inspections and remediation of rental homes exposed to...

Former Assemblymember Roger Hernández claimed that his ex-wife, Sen. Susan Rubio, and her sister, Assemblymember Blanca Rubio,...

Twelve insurers were dismissed from lawsuits over wildfire smoke claims, leaving California FAIR Plan as the sole defendant as...

Hagens Berman urged a judge to limit sanctions over AI-generated briefs containing fake citations, arguing errors stemmed from...

The judges expressed frustration that parties allowed faulty instructions in Comet Technologies' case against XP Power, raisin...

The governor's 15 trial-court appointments span Alameda, Contra Costa, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Orange, Riverside ...