A U.S. appeals court in San Francisco today upheld a federal wildlife agency’s conclusion that massive water project diversions of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin…
California Attorney General Kamala Harris today asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review and reverse a decision striking down a San Diego…
A federal appeal court ruled today that officials of a Morgan Hill high school didn’t violate students’ civil rights when they asked several students to…
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down a San Diego law Thursday that restricted the concealed…
A federal appeals court ruled in San Francisco today that an unemployed Virginia man can go ahead with a lawsuit against a people-search website that…
Gay people can’t be excluded from juries on the basis of their sexual orientation, a federal appeals court ruled in San Francisco today. The 9th…
An 11-judge panel of a federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in San Francisco this afternoon on a challenge to a California law…
A Berkeley woman whose legs were crushed by a train in Austria six years ago won the right from a U.S. appeals court today to…
A federal appeals court earlier this week upheld the right of the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail to a single central point, such as…
A federal law that imposes a lifetime ban on gun possession by people convicted of domestic violence has been upheld by a federal appeals court…
A federal appeals court is mulling a plea by the city of San Francisco and several tenants’ groups for a trial on a lawsuit that…
A federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial for a former East Bay professor who had pleaded…
Home-run champion Barry Bonds has asked a federal appeals court in San Francisco to take another look at his challenge to his 2011 obstruction-of-justice conviction…
A U.S. appeals court in San Francisco today upheld California’s pioneering low-carbon fuel standard and set aside an injunction against it, while ordering further proceedings…
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced its decision today to uphold former San Francisco Giants baseball star Barry Bonds’ obstruction-of-justice conviction in connection…
A popular oyster farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore announced today that it is requesting a rehearing in front of a full 11-judge federal…
A federal appeals court in San Francisco today declined to block the closure of a popular oyster farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore. A…
A federal appeals court in San Francisco refused to block a California law Tuesday that bans the possession and sale of shark fins that are…
A former Millbrae police officer’s conviction and death sentence for six 1983 murders were upheld by a federal appeals court in San Francisco today. Anthony…
A federal appeals court in San Francisco today cleared the way for a trial on two civil rights lawsuits filed against former BART police officer…
6/30 10:35 AM: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy today denied an emergency petition filed by sponsors of California’s Proposition 8 to halt gay and…
With state leaders convinced that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Proposition 8 this morning paves the way for same-sex marriages to resume soon in…
A federal court today reaffirmed its order for a reduction of nearly 10,000 in the state’s prison population by Dec. 31, saying that Gov. Brown…
A federal appeals court in San Francisco today grappled with questions of whether California’s ban on sexual orientation conversion therapy for youths under the age…
