Citing a “staff culture of targeting inmates with disabilities” inside California prisons, a federal appellate court docket on Thursday upheld the legality of a set of measures geared toward enhancing the conduct of correctional officers. The reforms, first ordered by a federal District Courtroom choose in 2020 in response to …

President Biden is leaving a definite mark on the U.S. ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals, including comparatively younger jurists of coloration who’ve bolstered the influential court docket’s liberal flank. Thus far, the president has appointed three Asian ladies, a Black girl and two Latino judges, all of whom have …

Drone video of a deadly standoff that took the life of a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy on Friday appears to capture the suspect being shot by another deputy on the street before the wounded officer is rushed into the back of a sheriff’s SUV. The video was posted to YouTube …

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s office recently cleared a well-connected Los Angeles police officer of wrongdoing in a deadly shooting from 2020 based in part on the “expert opinion” of a police use-of-force consultant whose work has been criticized as illegitimate for years. Other experts and legal observers said this …

Sufficient is in dispute concerning the deadly Los Angeles police capturing of a person in a Hollywood 24 Hour Health fitness center in 2018 that the controversial judicial doctrine of “certified immunity” mustn’t preclude a civil lawsuit filed by the person’s household from going earlier than a jury, a federal …

When Johnny Casali was an adolescent rising weed illegally within the mountains of Northern California, there was at all times the chance the federal government would spoil all the pieces — that his vegetation could be found and ripped up, or that he could be found and locked up. Within …