A lawsuit filed in November 2021 by a man who had been declared a vexatious litigant in January of that year was properly dismissed based on his failing to obtain a court order allowing hm to pursue the new action, the Sixth District Court of Appeal …
The San Diego Superior Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeal recently welcomed educators from across the country for the 2025 iCivics Educator Convening—a one-day, in-person professional development event. The convening was co-hosted by Chief …
Death penalty opinion filing tomorrowelaine.chan Wed, 07/23/2025 - 13:02 NewsLink Dunn is an automatic direct appeal from a July 2010 judgment of death.
The Supreme Court today denied a request to depublish the Fourth District, Division Two, Court of Appeal’s opinion in People v. Superior Court (Valdez), which requires denial of a petition for resentencing of a defendant for a murder he committed when he …
(Subscription required) William J. Murray Jr., formerly of the 3rd District Court of Appeal, argues California's judicial oversight body waited too long to act, while denying his own delays in issuing rulings amounted to misconduct.
Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has concluded that where a lemon-law case was tried in Orange County, it was error for the judge, in awarding fees to the plaintiff’s Los Angeles lawyers, to set the amount at the relatively low average …
Electronic Filing Expanded to Include Family Law Appeals Effective August 25, 2025Karen.Datangel Tue, 07/22/2025 - 14:58 Fromthecourts
(Subscription required) Retired Third District Court of Appeal Justice William Murray Jr., who faces disciplinary charges for allowing assigned cases to languish for years blamed his meticulous work ethic, changing laws, cumbersome courthouse processes and …
Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a pre-litigation agreement to limit a statutory right to recover litigation costs is enforceable, rejecting the argument that such waivers violate California policy and are invalidated by …
Div. One of the First District Court of Appeal has held that where the Clerk’s Office of a superior court transmits a judgment or appealable order as an attachment to a email, though the date of transmission is reflected, that’s not enough, without more, …
California appellate courts digitized their operations, saving off-site storage costs and increasing public access to records. In Sutter County, the court created a back-up server system in the cloud that helped it restart its computer system in minutes …
Each court’s AI policy must address a broad range of concerns including confidentiality, privacy, bias, safety, and security associated with generative AI systems. According to the task force report cited by Reuters, policies must also enforce oversight …
(Subscription required) Forum selection clauses cannot be invalidated solely because they require parties to litigate in a court that doesn't ensure a right to jury trials as California does, the state Supreme Court held Monday.
(Subscription required) Court proceedings face significant delays in transcript delivery, and in the most troubling cases, no records are produced at all. When proceedings go unrecorded, litigants lose their ability to appeal adverse decisions; attorneys …
(Subscription required) Months in the drafting, the rule of court and accompanying judicial administration standard do not require courts to allow judges and courthouse employees to employ large-language models in their work. But if individual court …
The EpicentRx case is expected to decide whether a forum selection clause is enforceable when a party’s right under California state law to a jury trial for their civil claims would not apply in the exclusive forum identified by the clause.
Immigration advocates in San Francisco scored a victory this week as a judge blocked federal officials from detaining without a court hearing a Bay Area activist previously convicted of a violent crime, in a case that attracted dozens of supporters at …
The study, which spans data from fiscal years 2020-2024, revealed a staggering 45% decline in interpreter usage compared to previous years, largely attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on case filings. Despite this downturn, the landscape is …
David Slayton, Executive Officer/Clerk of Court for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, has received the Warren E. Burger Award for Excellence in Court Administration. Presented by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), the award honors …
SAN FRANCISCO—The Judicial Council at its July 18 business meeting approved the allocation of funding to the courts provided in the fiscal year 2025-26 state budget, which includes money for court-appointed dependency counsel, continued implementation of …
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