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Damian Dovarganes/AP PhotoWhy do we vote on judges, and how are we supposed to decide? Here's the skinny. -
Noah Berger/AP PhotoThe California Supreme Court ruled Sheriff Chad Bianco violated the state’s election law when his office seized ballots from the Riverside County registrar. The ruling comes six weeks before the November midterm election that will determine who controls Congress in President Trump’s final two years in office.
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If you can’t easily consume it, having marijuana in your car does not give California police the right to search the vehicle. -
Justices told a lower court to revisit their decision to uphold cuts of 75 percent to payments for solar panel owners. -
Environmental groups want to revive higher payments to panel owners. But the subsidies were unfair to non-solar ratepayers, regulators say. -
State’s highest court refuses to overturn voter-backed Prop. 22, a law written by the gig industry. The ruling means gig workers will remain independent contractors. -
The state Supreme Court takes a business-backed initiative to make it more difficult to raise taxes off the Nov. 5 ballot. Gov. Newsom and legislative leaders sued to kick it off. -
The California Supreme Court will decide in the coming weeks whether to kick a measure off the November ballot that would make it more difficult to raise taxes. The case pits Democratic leaders and unions against business and taxpayer groups. -
Why Newsom and California lawmakers want the state Supreme Court to remove a 2024 ballot propositionA ballot measure being pushed by business groups could place strict new limits on the ability of state and local governments to raise taxes. But California Democrats — from Governor Gavin Newsom to mayors from around the state — are asking the state Supreme Court to invalidate the proposition and remove it from the 2024 ballot. -
It was a case that some said threatened to erode California’s voting rights law. But after a ruling by the state’s Supreme Court on Thursday, some of its protections are reaffirmed, for now. -
More California police departments are deploying body cameras. A new court ruling restricts how prosecutors can use footage of witness accounts at trial. -
Unlike the U.S. Supreme Court, California’s highest court is more obscure and rarely issues polarizing opinions. -
Justice Patricia Guerrero has been an associate justice in a federal appeals court, a trial court judge, a law partner and a federal prosecutor. -
Patricia Guerrero, a daughter of immigrants, would become the high court’s first Latina — significant in a state court system where Latinos are underrepresented.
