(Subscription required) The RV will provide in-person services in remote areas, to ensure litigants without adequate transportation to the county’s courthouses can still appear at hearings.
(Subscription required) Gov. Gavin Newsom also approved bills targeting attorney advertising and exempting civil cases from a fledgling law restricting peremptory challenges.
(Subscription required) New survey data from Gallup reveals that 57% of U.S. companies are operating without fully implemented AI policies, even as employees increasingly rely on AI tools for everyday work. The findings arrive as litigation activity …
(Subscription required) The Judicial Council of California has announced the winners of its 2025 Distinguished Service and Aranda Access to Justice awards, recognizing judges and court executives whose innovation and leadership have advanced fairness and …
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The award was presented at a recent assembly by the Honorable Judge Jessica Lea Morgan, who serves as the High Desert Juvenile Justice Judge for the San Bernardino County Superior Court in Victorville. After presenting the award, Judge Morgan spoke about …
Gov. Newsom introduced CARE Court to bring more people experiencing severe mental illness into treatment. It has helped fewer people than he projected, but a new law will make more people eligible for it.
On Friday of last week, the [U.S.] Supreme Court granted review in five cases from the end-of-summer “long conference.” And then on Monday, the court relisted 17 long conference cases for consideration a second time at this week’s conference.
The biggest study yet on California’s tough-on-crime ballot measure Proposition 36 shows few people are finding their way into the treatment it promised.
The Judicial Council of California today announced three recipients of its 2025 Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes people and organizations for their extraordinary leadership and contributions to the administration of justice in California. This …
Efforts to roll back life sentences for nonviolent offenders under California’s “three strikes” law got a boost Thursday from the state Supreme Court, which allowed some longtime prisoners to seek release if they are not shown to be currently dangerous.
Sergio Covarrubias García, who opened his own law firm with just $30 in his bank account, became the first officially recognized undocumented attorney in the U.S. after a decade-long struggle.
(Subscription required) Jenkins, whose judicial career spanned decades in both the state and federal judiciaries, said he will leave California's high court at the end of the month.
An en banc panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that an order denying a special motion to strike a complaint filed under California’s anti-SLAPP statute is not immediately appealable in federal court under the collateral decree …
In a rare session marking the state’s 175th birthday, the California Supreme Court held oral arguments at Colton Hall in Monterey where the state was founded, giving local students a front-row seat to justice in action and a glimpse into future legal …
(Subscription required) Appellate advocates urged the justices to require ability-to-pay hearings and shift the proof burden to prosecutors. The state countered that defendants are best positioned to show inability to pay and that the seriousness of the …
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Associate Justice Martin J. Jenkins will retire from the California Supreme Court at the end of October after five years with the court and more than 35 years of judicial service. “I could not imagine a better capstone to my career on the bench than …
Local students will have the chance to question California Supreme Court members about the state’s judicial system before Wednesday’s special session of the court in Monterey, the first time the court has met in the city in more than 45 years. The special …
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