Exigent circumstances justified the warrantless entry by members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department SWAT team into an apartment—after a 15-hour standoff—to apprehend a man who, earlier, fatally shot a Pomona police officer who was holding a ballistics shield while others used a battering ram, Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal declared yesterday.

The chief judge of the largest U.S. federal appeals court said it will reexamine how it manages the court's "enormous" immigration docket after several judges on the court appointed by President Donald Trump "disrupted" its policymaking process ​with a ruling declaring its practice of pausing deportations unlawful.

The symposium brought together prosecutors, city attorneys, law enforcement leaders, and mental health and violence  prevention advocates to advance implementation of California’s evolving firearm safety laws. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to Chicago last week to attend the funeral of Rev. Jesse Jackson, joining a gathering of prominent political leaders, clergy and civil rights figures paying tribute to one of the most influential voices in the modern civil rights movement. Overall, the report finds that the state’s judiciary has become steadily more representative of California’s population over the past 20 years