Sonja Sharp is a legal affairs reporter for the Los Angeles Times and a founding member of the Society of Disabled Journalists. Before joining the newsroom in 2019, she worked as an NYPD-credentialed member of the New York City press corps, writing stranger-than-fiction stories of crime and culture for VICE, the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice, among others. She is a Bay Area native, a graduate of UC Berkeley and Columbia, and a proud Jewish mother.
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The 9th Circuit was one of two appellate courts to issue rulings this week against the Trump administration, finding that immigrants who are detained away from the border are entitled to a bond hearing to decide whether they should be freed or remain in detention while their case proceeds
The Trump administration has pressed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to ‘thumbs-up, thumbs-down’ the Flores settlement agreement, a decades-old case in Los Angeles federal court that sets the rules for how the government can detain migrant children.
Commissioning murder is “not categorically a crime of violence,” even in cases where the killer fulfills the contract, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week, invalidating two felony convictions that stemmed from an oil well dispute in North Dakota.
As the cost of traditional weddings soars, many California couples are opting to elope — but reserving a date at the state’s most popular courthouses and city halls has become as difficult as scoring tickets to a popular concert.
Judge Ryan D. Nelson was charged with misdemeanor battery and malicious destruction of property in connection with an apparent spat with another driver in Idaho in late April.
California’s Supreme Court will decide whether to allow electronic recordings of most civil court proceedings. A ruling in favor could fix a crisis but have unintended consequences.
The appellate court granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a law that bars school employees from disclosing a student’s gender identity, sexual orientation or expression to parents without the student’s consent.
The decision temporarily bars Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital from producing pediatric records while a judge weighs whether a Texas grand jury can force the California medical center to hand over its files.
Authorities have scaled back the massive search for missing Lake Tahoe hiker Jason Coughran, 60, who is now presumed dead after a severe storm.
A San Diego man said he felt lucky to be alive and recovering at home this week after surviving a grizzly bear attack at Glacier National Park on May 28.