A tax on thousands of vacant apartment units in San Francisco, approved by the city’s voters two years ago to make more housing available to would-be tenants, has been struck down by a judge. Approved by 54% of the voters in November 2022, the measure was …
The Judicial Council’s Court Facilities Advisory Committee will consider the two finalist sites for the new courthouse: USDA National Forest Service Office location and the parcels at the corner of Highway 49 and Cement Hill Road, during their Nov. 5 …
A defendant who pled guilty to two felonies, successfully petitioned the court to dismiss the case against him after he completed probation, and then filed a motion to withdraw his plea—under a statute permitting the request if the defendant did not …
Some Siskiyou County Asian Americans who were cited or fined after allowing water trucks to fill on their properties and be distributed elsewhere, in violation of a county zoning ordinance, are calling out the county officials' enforcement of the rule …
Two state agencies have filed an amicus letter in the ongoing litigation between the Indian Wells Valley Water District and the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority, stating that the appellate court should review and rule on the case, and do so in …
(Subscription required) Los Angeles County Superior Court facilities in downtown Los Angeles will be closed Friday for the Dodgers' victory parade. The federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles will remain open with a few matters scheduled to be heard …
The California Supreme Court held yesterday resolved ambiguity in a statute, holding that the refund-or-replace remedy provided for in California’s “lemon law”—requiring automakers to provide a substitute vehicle or to pay restitution for the purchase of a …
This November, the public will witness happy tears, cheers, and beaming smiles from children and parents of newly formed or reunited families in California courtrooms as the state recognizes Court Adoption and Permanency Month. During this annual event, …
Native American children in California’s foster care system are frequently placed in non-relative, non-native homes. Although the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, ensuring child welfare agencies investigate ancestry, contested …
A state appeals court says a transgender woman who took action to change her name and gender identity at age 19 has a right to keep those records confidential in order to avoid threats and harassment. In the first ruling on the issue in California, the 5th …
Judge James G. Bertoli, who retires in January, was publicly admonished by a judicial conduct commission for improper political activity and social media conduct. The issue was a proposed high school consolidation, which led to local tempers flaring, …
Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal held yesterday, in a 2-1 decision, that evidence that a defendant pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter—and was the only charged party to admit to personally using a gun in a deadly, gang-related drive-by …
Ja.O. is a case under the federal Indian Child Welfare Act and complementary state statutory law. The issue is whether the duty of a child welfare agency to inquire of extended family members and others about a child’s potential Indian ancestry applies to …
The executive, Maury Blackman, was not charged with a crime for the 2021 incident, and police sealed his arrest report from public view in 2022 — which, under California law, made it illegal to publish the report. The judge who signed the sealing order …
(Subscription required) Live Nation Entertainment Inc. worked with a new ADR firm to handle mass claims, but a 9th Circuit panel rejected it, ruling the company had created a system that had too many advantages for itself and was rife with conflicts of …
At its November 5, 2024 meeting, the Judicial Council’s Court Facilities Advisory Committee will consider the two finalist sites for the new courthouse: USDA National Forest Service Office location and the parcels at the corner of Highway 49 and Cement …
Judge Morrison England, Judge Dena Coggins, attorney Adrian McKinney and Georgia “Mother Rose” West, all lifelong Sacramentans, were honored at the Wiley Manuel Bar Association at its Legal Fusion Gala on Oct. 17. The Wiley Manuel Bar Association …
(Subscription required) A litigant who wants to disqualify a judge for perceived bias must act quickly and not wait months or even years until an advantageous time during proceedings, the California Supreme Court held Monday. In a unanimous 42-page opinion …
The shifting of the obligation of a felon to report to the probation department in San Bernardino County, where he lived, rather than the agency in Riverside, where he pled guilty to inflicting corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition, was not a …
The Court of Appeal for this district has held that under the plain meaning of a Family Code section, an ex-wife can pursue collection of an attorney-fee award in her dissolution action that was made nearly 12 years before she filed an application for a …
