There were 106 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 466,976 in the last 365 days.
Criminal prosecutions in Marin County suffer from excessive delays, harming crime victims and defendants jailed awaiting trial, as well as overworked county prosecutors, and District Attorney Lori Frugoli’s office is chiefly responsible, the county grand …
Los Angeles Judge Lawrence P. Riff signed an order Tuesday which prohibits the city and county from enforcing the 2022 bail schedule for infractions and misdemeanors, and reinstates the zero-dollar COVID emergency bail schedule.
Judge Richard B. Ulmer issued his ruling in a lawsuit brought against PG&E by Winding Creek Solar LLC, an alternative energy company that has tried to compel PG&E to enter into a 20-year purchase agreement for the solar energy it produces under the …
On Oct. 7, 2003, California voters decided to recall their governor, Gray Davis, less than a year after giving him a second term, and replace him with action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Five days later, in one of his last acts as governor, Davis …
The Brennan Center for Justice has published an update to its examination of “State Supreme Court Diversity.” Authors Amanda Powers and Alicia Bannon report that although “this year has brought a slight increase in demographic and professional diversity …
The Superior Court of Alameda County won the Justice Ming Chin Award for Technology Innovation for its automated risk assessment program that quickens the pace of justice by creating pretrial reports as defendants are booked into jail.
In addition to Chief Justice Guerrero, three San Diego appellate justices also made a visit to the school—Presiding Justice Judith McConnell, Justice Martin Buchanan, and Justice Jose Castillo. Monarch is a public school partnership of the San Diego County …
The City of Ventura acted within its rights in stripping a statue of Saint Junípero Serra of its historical-landmark status, prying it from its moorings in front of the city hall, and carting it off, Div. Six of the Court of Appeal for this district has …
The $307 billion spending plan, which will shape budget negotiations with the Legislature in the coming weeks, maintains $5 billion in funding for the judiciary included in Newsom’s January budget. The latest proposal scales back a planned $109.3 million …
The Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District will host its oral argument session during the week of May 15 in Room 500 of the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building, while technical upgrades are made to the Third District’s own courtroom. Room 500, the …
The new rule does a couple of things. It requires a “detailed” statement — previously it was a “brief” statement — on why the cases are related. Moreover, the rule now contains a specific procedure for one side to object to a case getting deemed related, …
The program, dubbed by defense attorneys “spit and acquit,” has helped local prosecutors amass a private database of more than 182,000 DNA profiles — larger than the individual databases of 25 states. The lawsuit by UCI criminology professor emeritus …
SAN FRANCISCO—The council at its May 12 business meeting approved new court rules and forms to implement the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act. The act establishes a new, noncriminal proceeding that authorizes specified people to …
Proposition 12, approved by more than 62% of the state’s voters in 2018, requires producers of breeding pigs to house them in cages of at least 24 square feet, allowing them enough room to turn around. It also set standards for cages that hold egg-laying …
The Supreme Court announced today that it will conduct its June calendar in San Diego. Merrill Balassone’s news release reports, “The special session will be attended by students from local high schools, including a school serving unhoused youth. Other …
A lot of water is flowing quickly through the Whitewater River right now ― and while the cause is partially the state’s historic snowpack, it’s a bit more complicated than just extra snowmelt runoff.
A state appeals court ordered the city of Huntington Beach to pay $3.5 million in legal fees to an affordable housing group stemming from the organization’s 2015 lawsuit over the city’s housing plan. The three-judge panel ruled the Kennedy Commission’s …
A Valley legislator has reworked a bill to stop foreign powers from owning ag land and having rights to water and food production. But concessions made to the bill could have little impact on what lawmakers hope to solve. Senate Bill 224 from state Sen. …
A couple of weeks ago, the Supreme Court decided Davis v. Fresno Unified School District, a case concerning a challenge to a school construction financing agreement. The opinion addressed only a procedural issue — whether the challenge could proceed, and …
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the Constitution leaves it to states and their voters to decided on the products that will be sold there. He said these questions should not be decided by federal judges. “Companies that choose to sell …
