County lawyers argue its jails have improved since a scathing 2022 state audit and say plaintiffs’ claims of sub-standard ...

“It’s a crisis,” Southern District of California Chief U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant said Friday. “We’ve weathered crises before, and we’ll figure out a way to deal with it, because defendants ...

A state appeals panel on Thursday revived a lawsuit brought against San Diego County by the family of a man who died in San Marcos eight years ago.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Friday with a San Diego federal judge who found that California's law that barred buying more than one gun per month was unconstitutional.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed a court commissioner and former Caltrans attorney to be a San Diego Superior Court judge, his office announced Wednesday. Deborah Cumba has served as a commissioner ...

Judge lets humane society out of doghouse after changes to cat-release program In a final ruling issued Monday, Judge Katherine Bacal wrote that the animal shelter has revised its Community Cat ...

San Diego judge rules Trump administration is violating family separation settlement U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw did not immediately order remedy but ruled government is not providing required ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed a local prosecutor to be a San Diego Superior Court judge, his office announced Wednesday. Jihan Maloney has served as a deputy district attorney at the San Diego ...

Scores of attorneys and several judges gathered at the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego Thursday to retake their attorney oaths administered by Chief U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant ...

Ret. San Diego judge admonished for racially charged comments on bench, absences For the second time in 18 months, the State Commission on Judicial Misconduct has publicly disciplined recently ...

A recently retired San Diego Superior Court judge was publicly admonished Thursday by the state's agency that investigates judicial misconduct complaints for missing more than 150 days of work and ...

Now-retired Superior Court Judge Howard Shore called the discipline unjustified.