Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he was nominating Supreme Court Associate Justice Patricia Guerrero, 50, to be the state’s Chief Justice. If confirmed, Guerrero would be the state’s first Latina Chief Justice.
Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian immigrant convicted of assassinating presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole Thursday.
The California Supreme Court on Monday reversed the 2005 death sentence for Scott Peterson, who was found guilty of slaying his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson.
The California Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit brought by Catholic missionaries that sought to overturn a state mandate that forces them to pay insurance premiums that subsidize abortions.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law in July that requires all presidential candidates on the state’s primary ballot to release their tax returns for the preceding five years. But a constitutional amendment passed by California voters in 1972 may prevent that law from being enforced.
A California judge overturned the conviction of five men who had marijuana in their prison cells after the state legalized recreational pot.
The California Supreme Court granted an emergency stay on Friday in the criminal proceedings against Sandra Merritt, one of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) journalists who produced the undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s alleged practice of harvesting and selling the body parts of aborted babies for profit.
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of the California Supreme Court has quit the Republican Party over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year.
California Governor Jerry Brown has a pattern of appointing cronies — sometimes unqualified ones — to state boards, according to columnist Dan Walters of Calmatters.org.
The California Supreme Court ruled that the state’s “Mandatory Mediation and Conciliation” process, which allows state mediators to impose binding contracts between farmers and unions when negotiations break down, is constitutional.
Fitch Ratings downgraded the City of Chicago’s credit rating to just one step above “junk bonds” on March 28.
In a blockbuster ruling by the California Supreme Court that could be a disaster for the $8.7 trillion mortgage bond market, defaulted borrowers can now sue to void a “wrongful foreclosure” if the assignment of their note and deed of trust bore any defects.
On Monday, the California Supreme Court decided to allow Proposition 49, which would advise Congress to overturn the 2010 Citizens United ruling, back on the June 2016 ballot.
The California Supreme Court stopped a development project at Newhall Ranch, north of Los Angeles, over concerns that it would contribute to climate change–though the court admitted it could not say how.
The California Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday about whether the Democrat-dominated state legislature can put a referendum on the 2016 ballot about the Citizens United ruling.
The California Supreme Court threw a giant obstacle on the California bullet train’s track toward fruition this week, ruling that the state agencies cannot escape the state’s environmental laws by claiming federal laws supersede them.
On Friday, all seven of California’s Supreme Court justices voted unanimously to prohibit state judges from belonging to the Boy Scouts.
