There were 2,014 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 393,980 in the last 365 days.
"They have a long litany of problems," Assembly Judiciary Chair Brian Maienschein, D-San Diego, told the Daily Journal on Monday. "I intend to have a firm hand with them." Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, named Maienschein …
Reversed – The California State Supreme Court has turned back an Appeals Court decision that granted attorney’s fees to Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand and City Councilman Nils Nehrenheim, after a 2019 trial court victory. The ruling was announced Monday …
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court asked for a preliminary opposition to the original writ petition seeking to prevent enforcement of the CARE Act, legislation enacted at Governor Gavin Newsom’s urging that, as he described it, establishes “a new framework to …
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Gail Dekreon, known for a time as the “queen of traffic court,” has resigned after two decades on the bench, the court announced. Her Jan. 31 retirement came nearly three years after she was reelected for the fourth time …
At the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, actions of note included: employment timekeeping, economic loss rule, lemon law, Covid insurance, and criminal case grant-and-holds.
The Supreme Court yesterday denied review in In re Gates, but Justice Joshua Groban — joined by Justices Carol Corrigan, Goodwin Liu, and Kelli Evans — wrote a concurring statement explaining why it was OK that the court wasn’t taking the case even though …
Six judges from across the nation who represent diversity in the judiciary were honored by The National Judicial College with awards for Making the World a More Just Place. The event took place in Beverly Hills on Jan. 19. Among the honored were Los …
In less than a week, three separate child sexual assault cases have been dismissed, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In one of the cases, the Riverside County Superior court announced there were no judges available to hear the …
Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Rei Onishi, an attorney for the Governor’s Office for the past several years, to serve as a Sacramento Superior Court judge. Onishi, 41, of Sacramento County, was among 10 new California superior court judges appointed by Newsom …
At an online press conference, court executive officer David Slayton outlined a list of new rewards designed to lure and keep official court reporters at the nation’s largest trial court system: $20,000 signing bonuses, $17,500 retention awards, pay hikes …
In a unanimous opinion issued Monday, Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero wrote defendants in these cases should face a high bar when trying to recover attorneys’ fees — even if it means “an asymmetrical standard applies to a prevailing defendant’s request for …
The Commission on Judicial Performance should be given new powers and a larger budget, according to a committee created two years ago to oversee the agency. It also stated, “The unicameral model has not been identified as a matter of concern by judicial or …
Newsom's latest round of judicial appointments includes a former assemblyman and one-time lawyers at firms including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Perkins Coie. Newsom also appointed 10 new trial court judges, including former Assemblyman Richard …
"According to certain disability and civil rights groups, California can’t even try to save the lives of people with schizophrenia. We have no right to get between them and their illness. Because to mandate the help that someone is too ill to know he …
California regulators took the first step toward launching an interstate cannabis market by formally asking Attorney General Rob Bonta to weigh the liability risks of such a move. In a letter dated Friday and released publicly on Monday, Nicole Elliott, …
The court’s unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero — her first as a Supreme Court justice — concludes that, even though the pertinent attorney provision of the Act is facially neutral on the issue (the statute says “[t]he court may award [ …
“I wouldn’t say it was in the cards by any means,” the judge said in a recent interview after three years in the job. “I enjoyed being an advocate, representing victims of crimes. Back when I was a DA, I did not have my eyes set on being a judge by any …
The Judicial Council provides up to $2 million in annual legal fees to judges to defend themselves in discipline cases brought by the Commission on Judicial Performance. Based on a combination of insurance policies and budget documents, the cost of …
Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero selected Kyle Graham as chief supervising attorney. Before the appointment, Graham had worked as assistant chief supervising attorney at the court since 2017. Replacing Graham as assistant chief is Guerrero’s former chambers …
A group of disability and civil rights organizations is hoping to block Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest plan to address California’s homeless crisis by moving people with severe, untreated mental illness off of the streets into court-ordered treatment programs.
