There were 2,307 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 391,197 in the last 365 days.
The litigation war over pandemic related restrictions and penalties between Calvary Chapel and the local governments throughout the state saw its latest battle Tuesday. Santa Clara County asked a court judge to grant summary adjudication in its lawsuit …
“The fear that most people have is that ChatGPT will be asked to provide either a line of argument or a resolution of an issue that is disputed by the parties that the judge accepts in making a decision without disclosing it before the decision is made and …
Leaders of California’s state bar on Monday insisted that recent structural and policy changes at the lawyer-regulating agency should prevent a recurrence of the kind of internal corruption described in two scathing reports released Friday.
A panel for California’s First District Court of Appeal found that the November 2020 ballot measure that classified app-based drivers as independent contractors instead of employees does not trespass on the Legislature’s authority or violate a rule …
Goorvitch, who has been handling unlimited civil cases at Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles since 2021, sees his role as letting the attorneys manage their cases if they act in good faith. “Whenever a dispute arises I step in. It’s a delicate …
Tom Girardi, the disgraced and now disbarred trial lawyer, enjoyed “an extensive network of connections at all levels” of the California state bar while avoiding public discipline for decades, according to reports released Friday by the lawyer-oversight …
The Hodge approach, which embraces situation-specific physical solutions to effectively allocate water rights, is the best general approach to resolving water law disputes because it embodies the evolution of California water law and provides flexibility …
This month, the leaders of Los Angeles have the opportunity to join other jurisdictions that have reformed or eliminated the deeply troubling cash bail system. If they don’t, the courts should act to address a flawed and disturbing bail system that simply …
After spending 20 years as a deputy district attorney in Yuba County and then being elected to the Superior Court two years ago, she has witnessed families with cyclical repetitions of generational trauma. "Everything that the kids go through, in …
“I was a voracious reader,” the first out lesbian on California’s highest court told Out in the Bay Queer Radio + Podcast. Evans says she read an entire set of encyclopedias from A-Z and again from Z-A bought for her by her grandmother, who “probably paid …
With the construction of Lakeport’s new courthouse set to start early next year, the Lakeport City Council held a discussion on Tuesday about possible traffic improvements to facilitate the higher traffic volumes expected in the project area.
The state’s lawsuit accuses Huntington Beach of stifling affordable housing projects and infringing on the rights of homeowners to build additional dwelling units on their properties. Huntington Beach fired back hours later with a federal lawsuit of its …
Four years ago these guys argued that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on executions was a limited and temporary stopgap that raised separation-of-powers issues, exceeded executive power, and undermined the electorate’s will. Little has …
According to a report that was released last year, San Joaquin County needs at least six judges to adequately handle the load of cases that works its way through the county’s criminal justice system. And now the county needs only five.
Amid an unclear policy within the California State Bar, the agency altered licensee website profiles for alumni of UC Hastings College of the Law to the school’s new name, then back to Hastings, then back to the new name, according to a statement from the …
The plaintiffs’ lead attorney, Jay Edelson of Edelson PC, detailed in an email Wednesday the importance of the case as artificial intelligence grows increasingly prevalent in the practice of law. “We are definitely at the cusp of an AI revolution in …
Lawmakers appeared to support continued, limited use of video appearances in some court matters but electronic recording still faces significant opposition from court reporters and their labor unions. Mar 7, 2023
Under the court’s policy announced in 2021, the motions to unseal should cause the clemency recommendation request records to be returned to Newsom with directions for him to show why at least some of the records should remain confidential. Once he has …
Vaccinations against COVID-19 are recommended, but not required, for schoolchildren in California. When a judge orders vaccination for a youngster living in a group home, however, a state appeals court says the youth must comply despite a parent's …
In 2017, Heather Rose Brown was convicted of first-degree murder in Shasta County Court for the death of her five-day-old daughter, as the infant had been poisoned with morphine and methamphetamine through the mother’s breast milk. The state Supreme Court’ …
