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  • Report Shows Strong Support for Remote Court Proceedings

    California Courts Newsroom
    February 13, 2026

    Judicial Council members at their February 20 business meeting will receive a report showing that litigants and court staff who took part in remote appearances in civil and criminal proceedings had an overwhelmingly positive experience.

  • Judicial Profile: Sacramento County Judge Renuka George

    Daily Journal
    February 13, 2026

    (Subscription required) Sacramento Superior Court judge traces her career from marrying 50 couples in 2004 to presiding over complex trials.

  • Minor Can’t Disaffirm Clause That Disputes Be Arbitrated

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    February 13, 2026

    A minor could not, by virtue of an action brought by her father as guardian ad litem, disaffirm an arbitration agreement that had been signed by the mother on the child’s behalf, Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has declared.

  • Woman Who Aided Boyfriend in Killing Family as Teenager Was Rightly Denied Relief—C.A.

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    February 13, 2026

    Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a woman who was convicted of aiding and abetting her then-boyfriend in the murder of her family members in 2000, when she was 16 years old, was properly denied resentencing based on a finding that she acted with an intent to kill.