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The justices stayed a Northern District of California ruling that blocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from termina...


A Los Angeles judge rejected the county's argument that the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission needs approval from County C...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


A Carlsbad law firm claims Thomson Reuters bought AI legal research upstart Casetext to eliminate a lower-cost rival and prese...


Justice Department actions targeting UCLA Law admissions and the university's response to alleged antisemitism invoke the same...


Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown of the 1st District Court of Appeal, a former federal prosecutor who wrote the opinion large...


Presiding Justice Brian M. Hoffstadt of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 5, known for questioning lawyers early and ...


Business Law


TriBike Transport claims companies involved in shipping 180 athletes' bicycles home from a 2023 race withheld them for three m...


Torts/Personal Injury


A Los Angeles County jury found Caltrans liable for a longshoreman's traumatic brain injury after evidence showed the agency h...


U.S. Supreme Court


The justices have already agreed to hear six appeals from the 9th Circuit, nearly matching last term's total, as major dispute...


Arnold Schwarzenegger wants a car-crash plaintiff to pay added courthouse security costs he says could result from her attorne...


Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a record 1,040 bills in his final legislative session, including measures narrowing some California p...


Three Cal State Dominguez Hills student-athletes allege the track coach's husband sexually harassed and assaulted them and tha...


Technology


Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Y. Illston ruled that information transmitted to Meta about users' activity on the Californi...


Justice Victor A. Rodríguez of the 1st District Court of Appeal, who spent his career in public service and ran Alameda County...


A former dependency judge who put off applying to the appellate bench to gain trial experience, Justice Rashida Adams now lead...


Government


On his final day of signing bills as governor, Gavin Newsom approved SB 577, tightening rules for some older childhood sexual ...


Torts/Personal Injury


Nearly 80% of the offers have been accepted, according to the utility, while about 2% have been declined.


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin ruled that consumers challenging Google's agreements to make its search engine the default on ...


Immigration


A new Justice Department rule giving immigration judges authority to impose monetary contempt penalties has drawn objections f...


Immigration


Three Southern California residents alleging unlawful detention and excessive force by federal immigration agents have added c...


Class Action


Five suits over a 2025 Children's Council of San Francisco data breach are expected to be consolidated after a judge questione...


After 44 years as a civil litigator, ARC neutral Gary N. Stern brings extensive trial experience, rigorous preparation and a d...


Immigration


Private detention operator GEO Group is challenging California's new Civil Detainees' Bill of Rights Act, arguing the state ca...


Labor/Employment


Lyft will pay at least $237 million to drivers to resolve claims it misclassified them as independent contractors before Prop...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


An Oakland federal judge approved Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery over objections from advocacy gr...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


AB 1776 gives state prosecutors new authority to pursue anticompetitive conduct by dominant companies, widening California's d...


A California nonprofit claims OpenAI is legally responsible after AI agents allegedly escaped a controlled testing environment...


Civil Rights


Oakland police oversight to end after 23 years

Oct. 1, 2026
By Daniel Schrager

A federal judge will end one of the nation's longest-running police monitorships after the Oakland Police Department achieved ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Prosecutors allege Harold G. Becks drove his daughter and granddaughter to Mexico in violation of court orders in a custody di...


Contracts


Sutter Bay Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan are preparing to bifurcate a November jury trial over allegations that ...