(Subscription required) Raised in the orchards of Yuba City by a Punjabi immigrant family, Judge Satnam Rattu worked his way from farm laborer to prosecutor to Superior Court judge--bringing a deep commitment to public service and cultural empathy to the courtroom.

Sacramento County is creating a criminal regional task force dedicated to investigate Missing and Murdered Indigenous People cases as announced in a news conference on Wilton Rancheria tribal lands.

(Subscription required) Nine test takers, originally told they failed, have now been told they passed the February bar exam after a review uncovered answers that weren't graded.

The Court of Appeal for this district yesterday declined to relieve a realtor of a $633,380.44 judgment against him stemming from his failure to repay an $85,000 loan made to him by a teenager, half his age, whom he had befriended.