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(Subscription required) Presiding Judge Michael G. Bowman noted in a letter that Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, who stepped down as chief justice on Jan. 1, was born in Sacramento and remains a resident.
(Subscription required) Murillo, appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court last year, had experience managing chaotic situations. A former assistant chief executive officer for Los Angeles County, she led and coordinated housing services for those …
(Subscription required) Requiring employers to prevent the spread of COVID-19 from the workplace to workers' families would create a significant and unpredictable burden, Associate Justice Carol Corrigan wrote. Jul 6, 2023
Seven years after California voters passed Proposition 64 in 2016, successfully legalizing marijuana possession, cultivation, and sales, the courts are finally nearly finished relieving all qualifying cannabis cases. As of April 6, 2023, California courts …
(Subscription required) SB 40 currently also directs the bar to prepare proposed rules of conduct that would require attorneys to report colleagues who conspired or engaged in treason, sedition or insurrection but deem it an act of professional misconduct …
(Subscription required) Draper's softer side was continuously on display during his first judicial assignment, which was juvenile dependency court. He relished learning something new and threw himself into work with great enthusiasm, even writing a …
The Supreme Court will answer these questions: “1. If an employee contracts COVID-19 at his workplace and brings the virus home to his spouse, does California’s derivative injury doctrine bar the spouse’s claim against the employer? 2. Under California law …
(Subscription required) California bar leaders have asked for a $107 licensing fee increase, warning that services are at risk if the agency doesn't receive additional funding.
(Subscription required) Hestrin, who said more than 90% of his cases have been plea bargained out, said the dismissals started dropping when Judge Judith Clark took over as presiding judge of the county’s Superior Court system at the start of 2023. With …
(Subscription required) The judge found the state agency missed a July 1, 2022 deadline to produce regulations for much of the law — and that this should cause an equivalent delay in Proposition 24’s enforcement date, which was Saturday.
(Subscription required) On Monday, a group of civil rights groups represented by the Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against Harvard, arguing that preferential treatment of applicants whose parents or other …
(Subscription required) Having spent nearly two decades as a deputy public defender in north Orange County, Judge Fernando Valle found that his clients and colleagues gave him insight into walks of life he hadn't seen before. "What drove me is …
In Los Angeles, the superior court designated specific courtrooms to hear domestic violence restraining orders to better streamline its family court calendars. In Monterey, the court changed when it heard certain case types to help ensure interpreters are …
(Subscription required) Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed legislation authorizing state courts to continue using remote-access technology in civil proceedings through 2025. Newsom delivered his signature without comment just hours before the existing …
Officials at Alameda County Superior Court will roll out an online system this week to assist motorists who cannot afford to pay traffic tickets, an effort to prevent late fees from piling up and plunging drivers into debt. Jul 1, 2023
There will be no Wednesday conference this week. Even though there are no oral argument sessions in July or August and, for the other months, the court skips conferencing only during those weeks in which it is hearing arguments, the court doesn’t …
Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero appointed three new voting members and six new advisory (non-voting) members to the Judicial Council. Four voting members were also reappointed. “The council consists of judges, court executives, attorneys, and legislators …
In People v. Reyes, the Supreme Court today holds a superior court erred in its denial of a petition for resentencing under 2018 legislation — Senate Bill 1437 — that limited criminal liability for felony murder and eliminated it for murder under the …
What’s the timeline for the new courthouse? Where will it be located? Plumas News reached out to the Judicial Council of California for an update on its plans for the new courthouse to be located in Quincy.
In a 6-3 ruling on the final day of its 2022-23 term, the court said a federal law allowing the government to "waive or modify" other laws in order to protect student debtors did not authorize the debt cancellation. "The authority to ' …
