A San Diego Superior Court Judge today issued a final ruling in a four-year-old case that now requires police departments to release some videos captured by their police drones, a first-in-the-nation legal ruling that sets a new precedent for public access …
Ruling on a whopping 206 matters at its double conference yesterday, the Supreme Court took a number of notable actions. The court granted review in People v. Eaton. It’s the second grant of review in the case.
The Supreme Court denied review in People v. Denem, in which a Second District, Division Three, Court of Appeal unpublished opinion rejected constitutional challenges to a statute (Penal Code section 3051(h)) that prevents otherwise available youth- …
The U.S. Supreme Court spent more than two hours Thursday hearing arguments on President Donald Trump’s attempt to deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants without ever discussing whether the U.S. Constitution grants birthright …
Hundreds of immigrants are voluntarily opting out of court and risking automatic deportation orders, advocates say.
Los Angeles Court to Begin Implementation of LACourtConnect Remote Appearance Platform for Criminal, Appellate, Mental Health, and Juvenile CourtroomsKaren.Datangel Thu, 05/15/2025 - 15:58 Fromthecourts
Two judges of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday repudiated their recent concurrence in the view that the judicially crafted rule that administrative law judges hearing appeals from rulings of the commissioner of social security must set …
(Subscription required) In an email to applicants, the state bar said at least four people who were told they failed the February exam actually passed.
(Subscription required) More than half of the pre-law students surveyed this February said the current political climate impacted their decision to apply to law school.
(Subscription required) Judicial selection is the process by which judges are chosen to serve on courts of record. As many observers of the American judicial system note, this process varies significantly by state and even within different court levels …
California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli M. Evans will be the first guest speaker at the commencements of the University of California, Davis, as its School of Law leads off the spring graduation season Friday.
Erik and Lyle Menendez received a chance at freedom Tuesday after more than 35 years in prison, with an L.A. County judge granting a request to resentence them after hours of emotional testimony from family members who said the brothers had spent enough …
As Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to unveil his revised budget proposal, California is experiencing unexpectedly shaky economic conditions, with a likely deficit of more than $10 billion next year.
Groups trying to bring water back to the dry Kern River bed through Bakersfield have petitioned the California Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that knocked down an order that had kept flows going for a few months last year.
The State Bar of California's Board of Trustees on May 9 voted to extend an existing provisional licensure program, which it had enacted in 2020 when the bar exam was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, to give unsuccessful February bar examinees or …
Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal held Friday that an attorney and associated law firms have waived their contractual right to arbitrate claims against them by having actively pursued litigation against the defendants in court—requesting a …
California’s governor called upon the state’s cities and counties to ban homeless encampments this week, even providing blueprint legislation for dismantling the tents lining streets, parks and waterways throughout much of the state.
An en banc panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday that the application of a federal law criminalizing the possession of a firearm by a felon to a man with no violent criminal history does not run afoul of the Constitution under the …
CalBike joined an amicus brief in a court case that could have let cities off the hook if injured bike riders had signed a third-party waiver. Thankfully, the California Supreme Court struck that down. However, the Los Angeles City Attorney is lobbying for …
At its May 9 meeting, the State Bar Board of Trustees recommended non-scoring remedies for February 2025 Bar Exam applicants, including expanding the Provisional Licensure Program (PLP) to exam takers who were unsuccessful or withdrew.
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