The South Coast Air Quality Management District and two other California air districts sued U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao in federal court, claiming she issued a greenhouse gas emissions rule in violation of the Clean Air Act, which requires analysis of the impact of preempting state and local air pollution laws.
Read moreThe head of California’s Public Utilities Commission chastised Pacific Gas & Energy in a letter released Thursday, stating that she is open to replacing the utility giant blamed for costly wildfires and blackouts with a customer owned nonprofit cooperative.
Read moreAt its business meeting Thursday, the Judicial Council of California gave its stamp of approval to a list of 80 courthouse construction and renovation projects it hopes the Legislature will fund in the coming years.
Read moreAlready under siege from investors, state lawmakers, regulators and countless wildfire victims, plagued mega-utility Pacific Gas and Electric could soon be called before Congress to defend its actions during prophylactic power outages in California last month.
Read moreA shareholder in a California-based publicly traded company sued California in federal court, challenging the constitutionality of its Senate Bill 826, which requires publicly traded companies to meet a quota of female board members or face fines.
Read moreA jury of nine men and one woman began deliberations Wednesday afternoon over whether Planned Parenthood should be compensated by anti-abortion activists who infiltrated their ranks and recorded abortion doctors and staff.
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California’s utility regulator voted to launch an investigation into all three investor-owned utilities Wednesday in the aftermath of several bouts of prophylactic power outages that have affected millions of customers and dented California’s powerhouse economy.
Read moreSouthern California’s biggest utility struck a tentative $360 million deal Wednesday to settle multiple lawsuits over three massive wildfires set off by downed power lines and a deadly mudslide that ripped through one of the burn scars.
Read moreWith the state facing a nation-high number of judicial emergencies on its district courts, two nominees to the federal bench in California received a warm welcome in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning.
Read moreAn employee sued the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center, of Frazier Park, Calif., in Ventura County Court, claiming he was attacked by a wolf.
Read moreThe Association For Accessible Medicines sued the California Attorney General in federal court, claiming the state’s “pay for delay” law, barring pharmaceutical companies from paying competitors to keep generic drugs off the market is an unconstitutional interference with interstate commerce.
Read moreThe first death came in late August, two days before classes began, when an incoming freshman was struck by a car while walking on a freeway near the University of Southern California.
Read moreIn a study of a landmark California labor law detested by business groups and gig economy titans, researchers concluded Tuesday that the union-backed bill will cover a majority of independent contractors and affect more than just Uber and Lyft drivers.
Read moreWidespread power blackouts and years of destructive wildfires have brought California to a place where it has never been: Lawmakers are looking at replacing the nation’s largest utility with a public entity. Could such a plan overcome the regulatory, legal and political barriers, and if it did, would it be a better system than the one we have now?
Read moreBound by a strict code of ethics, judges have long been barred from speaking publicly about pending cases, a constraint that could soon change in response to increasing attacks on judicial independence in an age of widespread social media vitriol.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s push to raise one of the country’s tallest and most iconic dams – and flood a protected river stretch in the process – suffered another blow Friday after a major California water supplier announced it was pulling out of the contentious plan.
Read moreA class action claims the City of Santa Cruz, Calif., charges fees for water, sewer, and trash service that “exceed the proportional cost of service attributable to a given parcel,” which are illegal taxes on services, in superior court.
Read moreIn his latest dispatch, Courthouse News’ western bureau chief communes with the sun and fog on the California coast.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will not list the California spotted owl as an endangered species.
Read moreGirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, a fugitive believed to be in New Zealand, was charged Thursday for allegedly producing child porn and sex trafficking related to a 2012 incident involving a 16-year-old.
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