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Profile: Justice Leondra R. Kruger

The first justice to give birth while in office, the seventh female justice in the court’s history and its fourth African American, Justice Leondra R. Kruger has been forging a singular path on the state’s most prestigious court. Read the Los Angeles Times profile.

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In many counties, you can now get pinged with text message updates about your jury service. Other courts will remind you of an upcoming court date, or text a link to pay your traffic ticket.

Chief Justice Lauds Civic Learning Award Winners

Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye is joined by jurists and from local and appellate courts to make the 2018 Civic Learning Awards program a statewide success.

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Chief Justice Designates Jim Humes Administrative Presiding Justice of First Appellate District

June 19, 2018

Justice Jim Humes has been named Administrative Presiding Justice of the First Appellate District in San Francisco.

International Delegation Visits Supreme Court

Court Interpreters’ Conference Brings a Host of Languages to the Judicial Council

June 08, 2018

Court interpreters from around the world convened at the Judicial Council June 5 for the start of a four-day conference on the challenges and solutions in legal interpreting in the U.S. and Europe.

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Supreme Court Ethics Committee Issues Guidance to Judges Who Give Educational Presentations to Specialty Bar Associations

June 08, 2018

Committee says a judge must avoid bias or the appearance of bias and avoid the appearance that the specialty bar association is in a special position to influence the judge.

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Defending Privacy, Supreme Court Says Warrants Generally Are Necessary to Collect Cell Phone Data
June 22, 2018 | New York Times
Despite incompetence claim by defendant with “serious mental illness,” death penalty affirmed for murder and dismemberment of 12-year-old boy
June 21, 2018 | At the Lectern
Supreme Court limits criminal reversals based on inadequate rights waivers, but reverses conviction based on inadequate rights waiver
June 22, 2018 | At the Lectern
How Law Schools Fared on Calif.'s February 2018 Bar Exam
June 21, 2018 | The Recorder

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Profile: Justice Leondra R. Kruger

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Chief Justice Lauds Civic Learning Award Winners

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Chief Justice Designates Jim Humes Administrative Presiding Justice of First Appellate District

Court Interpreters’ Conference Brings a Host of Languages to the Judicial Council

Supreme Court Ethics Committee Issues Guidance to Judges Who Give Educational Presentations to Specialty Bar Associations

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Profile: Justice Leondra R. Kruger

Can We Text You?

Chief Justice Lauds Civic Learning Award Winners

Chief Justice Designates Jim Humes Administrative Presiding Justice of First Appellate District

Court Interpreters’ Conference Brings a Host of Languages to the Judicial Council

Supreme Court Ethics Committee Issues Guidance to Judges Who Give Educational Presentations to Specialty Bar Associations

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Helping Court Users Help Themselves

Chief Justice's Power of Democracy Civic Learning Initiative

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