(Subscription required) Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. issued an order on Friday temporarily shielding the U.S. DOGE Service from having to turn over extensive records in a transparency lawsuit brought by a government watchdog group.

(Subscription required) Friday was the first day of the Los Angeles County courts' new way of handling Notices of Settlement, to improve efficiency in the face of a 48% increase in unlimited civil filings in the past 17 years.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, for the second time, yesterday denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus sought by a man who, in 1991, beat, raped and murdered his girlfriend, and whose release on parole was blocked by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Now an advisory committee, the original Tribal Court/State Court Coalition was launched in 2010 to forge working relationships between California's tribal and state court judges.