Bob Egelko

“The equities favor the MWC’s interest in conducting and proceeding with the tournament as planned,” U.S. District Judge S. Kato Crews wrote Monday.

“San Francisco has spent many millions of dollars to develop a brand for its airport,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson wrote.

An Oakland man serving 35 years to life in prison for sexually trafficking a 15-year-old girl has been found dead in his cell, officials said Monday.

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco ruled Sept. 24 that the current maximum fluoride concentration poses an “unreasonable risk.”

From 2017 to 2020, the state and the Trump administration sued one another over sanctuary city policies as well as abortion and motor vehicle emissions.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said President Joe Biden was not authorized to order an increase in federal contractors’ wages.

Trump’s campaign and allies have already filed at least 90 lawsuits accusing election officials of allowing noncitizens to vote and defrauding the public.

The tax on thousands of vacant apartment units in San Francisco was approved by the city’s voters two years ago.

A tech executive is suing a journalist for $25 million for reporting, accurately, that he had been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.

The court said parents “have plausibly alleged” that California is violating their rights by only paying for disabled students to attend secular schools.

The court’s conservative majority appeared to agree with San Francisco's position in a case that could set new standards for pollution of offshore waters.

Payments will go to the family of a bicyclist killed by a speeding driver, motorcyclists injured in a collision with a police car, and a woman who fell.

The California Supreme Court agreed Thursday to allow the State Bar to revamp its bar exam while helping the bar dig itself out of a financial hole.

SF Baykeeper had brought a lawsuit saying Valero and Amports had discharged petroleum coke pollutants into bay waters near Valero's Benicia refinery.

The city is in the unusual position of siding with oil companies and business groups, and against the state and federal governments.

A federal judge rules that the maximum fluoride concentration the government allows in water poses an “unreasonable risk” to children and must be reduced.

Kamilah Moore said historical precedent, and Marcellus Williams’ execution Tuesday, drove her to advocate a dramatic remedy to racism in the legal system.

The State Bar is trying to dig itself out of a financial hole by revamping its bar exam and allowing it to be taken remotely rather than in huge auditoriums. 

California officials sued ExxonMobil, claiming the company spent decades deceiving the public about how much plastic can actually be recycled.

In a complaint to state labor officials, a University of California teachers’ union said UC is illegally punishing faculty who speak out about Gaza.