Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced three judicial appointees and the nomination of a fourth affecting Alameda and Santa Clara ...

Charles A. Smiley, an Alameda County Superior Court judge since 2012, has been nominated for associate justice of the 1st District Court of Appeal, Division One. He has served as a lecturer at the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the appointment of two Superior Court judges in Santa Clara County, Jon Heaberlin and ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Fil-Am lawyer Alexander P. Sario to serve as a judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday nominated two long-tenured trial court judges to the appellate benches, one in San Francisco and the other in Orange County.

Santa Clara Vice Mayor Anthony Becker’s perjury trial has gone on for nearly two weeks — and the judge said it's running ...

Civic-minded residents of Santa Clara County are invited to apply for service on the 2025-26 Civil Grand Jury, a component of the judicial branch that is dedicated to upholding transparency and ...

California judges approved only a handful of attempts by defendants to have their cases altered because of racial bias.

A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge on Tuesday agreed to dismiss domestic violence charges against Hunter Fraser, the ...

Since August, local judges have been nullifying murderers’ death sentences one by one. But there’s a problem: The law the ...

Officials with the state's sixth-largest trial court say they don't have enough certified shorthand reporters to staff ...