(Subscription required) Bar passage rates increased from 2023 to 2024 for all takers except July repeat examinees. Thirty-seven jurisdictions saw an increase in first-time bar passage rate between 2023 and 2024. The majority of jurisdictions increase from one to five percentage points.

(Subscription required) Deans of 11 California law schools have endorsed the new NextGen Uniform Bar Exam. Some bar leaders want a remote option, which is not offered for the NextGen UBE. A decision on future California bar exams has not yet been made.

After its $175 million courthouse was flooded out right before summer, Shasta County is keeping the second floor closed for now due to ongoing construction to repair all of the water damage. The closure has resulted in multiple cases being moved or relocated to other court departments, and a stairway leading from the first to second floor has been blocked off. 

(Scription required) In a sharply divided decision that could set the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court battle, judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals clashed in dueling opinions over whether a private prison company must follow state minimum wage laws to pay detainees, including immigrants in the country without permission.