(Scription required) Beginning Sept. 2, Los Angeles County Superior Court will accept appellate briefs via a designated email account, streamlining delivery, ensuring compliance with court rules, and complementing broader technology upgrades and remote appearance initiatives.

Div. Seven of this district’s Court of Appeal held yesterday that a statute providing that a defendant who is convicted of certain delineated offenses may be ordered to stay away from “a victim of the crime” for a period of 10 years does not allow for the protection of additional parties who were named in other counts to which he did not admit and on which a jury did not reach a verdict.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday partially reversed an order denying an anti-SLAPP motion brought by an outfit that conducted a multi-day overnight event—billed as involving “hands-on science in a camp environment”— at which, according to the complaint, fifth-graders were indoctrinated with LGBTQ viewpoints.

(Subscription required) The bar has three options, staff said: Using questions developed by the vendor that wrote the bulk of questions on the February test temporarily, as a “bridge” to creating a new exam; adopting the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ NextGen test; or creating a new, permanent exam that could be streamlined like Nevada’s shorter 100-question multiple choice test that is in development. The Committee of Bar Examiners until July 2026 to secure approval from the California Supreme Court.