How California is affected by Supreme Court’s rejection of federal bump stock banMartin.Novitski Fri, 06/14/2024 - 09:27 NewsLink Despite Friday’s Supreme Court ruling overturning federal regulations barring bump stocks, the attachments that convert …
Justices Goodwin Liu and Kelli Evans recorded dissenting votes from yesterday’s denial of review in People v. Powell, and Justice Evans filed a separate statement, joined by Justice Liu.
(Subscription required) The Los Angeles Superior Court tossed four complaints by school districts in California, Rhode Island, Florida and Washington against Google, Meta, TikTok and Snapchat. The schools sought damages for costs associated with mental …
(Subscription required) California’s worker misclassification law withstood another legal attack Monday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that state lawmakers acted rationally in targeting companies that provide services through app …
US Courts’ Safety Valve Threatens to Burst as Senior Judges ExitMartin.Novitski Wed, 06/12/2024 - 09:10 NewsLink The Eastern District has more than 700 weighted filings per judgeship, and 1,300 pending cases per judgeship. That’s the highest of California’ …
The Third District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a judge may consider the facts of the underlying crime, as established by trial transcripts, in evaluating a criminal defendant’s post-conviction request for diversion under a 2018 law providing for …
Construction for the Tani Cantil-Sakauye Sacramento County Courthouse is estimated to be completed sometime in December, according to the Judicial Council of California Facilities Services. The new courthouse, located near G and 6th streets in downtown …
Justice Liu responded to six questions, including one about which Supreme Court opinions during his tenure on the bench are the most memorable. He prefaced the answer by characterizing the query as “a classic ‘pick among your children’ kind of question.” …
(Subscription required) In a keynote address at the Legal Innovators conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, industry expert Zach Abramowitz said in-house teams are well-positioned to drive innovation at their companies and disrupt the outside counsel …
Div. Four of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a Government Code section authorizing the redress of a violation of a municipal ordinance by way of a civil action only permits city authorities—not private parties—to pursue enforcement actions, …
(Subscription required) A looming investigation into whether players in the artificial intelligence space have committed incipient violations of antitrust regulations is an attempt by regulators to not be caught "asleep at the wheel" while the …
(Subscription required) Counsel for an Argentinean lawyer, accusing Uber Technologies, Inc. of making him the "sacrificial lamb" of a criminal probe related to the company's roll out in his country, warned the California Supreme Court against …
As California considers policies and regulations around artificial intelligence, the conversation should center on its effects on people, experts and policymakers agree.
In late 2023, Stanislaus County became one of seven California counties to pilot the state’s new CARE Court system - a new judicial division intended to handle serious mental health conditions and substance addiction, and address the homelessness crisis. …
The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office says, around 9:30 a.m., a man came to the courthouse security area and allegedly made threats that he had a bomb. Deputies detained the man immediately, the sheriff's office says, and started searching him.
A unanimous court ruled in favor of a 15-year-old Native American girl — Alice Piper — and her parents who were challenging the Big Pine School District’s refusal to admit her and other Native children to its new school. The District unsuccessfully …
The proposed $4.5 billion reservoir would inundate nearly 14,000 acres of ranch lands in Glenn and Colusa counties to store water diverted from the Sacramento River through new a system of dams, pipelines and a bridge. With a maximum capacity of 1.5 …
The project is part of a partnership between Napa County Health & Human Services, the city of Napa, and Mentis to provide additional housing for adults with severe mental illness and who are at risk of being homeless, according to a statement from …
Our new mathematical analysis of the court’s decisions from the 2022-2023 session shows just how much it makes sense to think of this Supreme Court as a 3-3-3 court — one whose divides are driven not just by ideology, but a range of other legal …
Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal held Friday that a judgment of conviction became nonfinal when a defendant, who was a minor at the time he committed a murder but was sentenced as an adult, had his sentence conditionally upset on a writ of …
