(Subscription required) A look at how judicial independence has enabled courts to protect -- and, at times, fail to protect -- constitutional equality, from Yick Wo and Brown to Korematsu and Dred Scott.

(Subscription required) Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Tiana J. Murillo rejected a petition filed by Consumer Watchdog last year, leaving intact two bulletins Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued before and after the January 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires. The FAIR Plan, created in 1968, is California's insurer of last resort, providing property insurance to homeowners and businesses that cannot obtain coverage in the private insurance market, often because their homes are in wildfire-prone areas.

Hundreds of people gathered aboard the USS Midway Thursday evening for Justice250, a first-of-its-kind event in San Diego celebrating the nation's legal foundations, democracy and the rule of law. The program featured several speakers, including Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court.

A divided Div. Two of the First District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial judge rightly dismissed attempted murder and other counts in the pending state criminal case over the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi in his home based on double jeopardy principles following his conviction of federal assault charges, saying that courts are to look at the conduct at the heart of the crime rather than the elements at stake in determining whether the bar attaches.