You have been a strong proponent of diverse leadership in MDLs. What kind of considerations go into the selection process when appointing plaintiffs lawyers to leadership steering committees such ...

A San Francisco federal court will lose one of its judicial seats after a judge has announced he will enter semi-retirement. In a letter Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Orrick III notified ...

The judge who struck down a Trump administration crackdown on sanctuary cities is a hard-core Democrat activist whose life has been steeped in liberal politics since childhood. Judge William ...

William Horsley Orrick III is a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California. Last week, Orrick, an Obama appointee, blocked President Trump’s executive order to withhold ...

A divided U.S. Senate confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of William Orrick III, a former top immigration lawyer in President Obama's Justice Department, to the federal court in San Francisco.

A federal judge issued an order Thursday prohibiting the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in funding to San Francisco and other local governments with sanctuary policies ...

U.S. District Judge William Orrick III on Friday issued a temporary restraining order that blocked the Center for Medical Progress and its founder, David Daleiden, from releasing the videos and ...

A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to “sanctuary” jurisdictions.U.S. District Judge William Orrick ...

U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco dissolved the TRO Monday afternoon after finding the city finally has enough shelter beds available to house the roughly 60 residents of the ...

Now activists say he’s their top threat U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the injunction sought by San Francisco and more than a dozen other municipalities that limit cooperation with ...