Chief Justice Designates Jim Humes Administrative Presiding Justice of First Appellate District

June 19, 2018

Justice Jim Humes has been named Administrative Presiding Justice of the First Appellate District in San Francisco.

Court Interpreters’ Conference Brings a Host of Languages to the Judicial Council

June 08, 2018

Court interpreters from around the world convened at the Judicial Council June 5 for the start of a four-day conference on the challenges and solutions in legal interpreting in the U.S. and Europe.

Categories: Judicial Council

Supreme Court Ethics Committee Issues Guidance to Judges Who Give Educational Presentations to Specialty Bar Associations

June 08, 2018

Committee says a judge must avoid bias or the appearance of bias and avoid the appearance that the specialty bar association is in a special position to influence the judge.

Categories: CA Supreme Court

Chief Justice Appoints New Members to Judicial Council

June 07, 2018

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye has appointed three new voting members and four new advisory (nonvoting) members to the Judicial Council, the policymaking body of the California courts.

Categories: Judicial Council

Chief Justice Lauds Civic Learning Award Winners

May 31, 2018

Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye is joined by jurists and from local and appellate courts to make the 2018 Civic Learning Awards program a statewide success.

Categories: Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye, Civics/Power of Democracy

Can We Text You?

May 30, 2018

As Californians do more business on mobile devices, the state’s courts are joining in on the trend, from texting court payments to receiving jury service updates.

Council Clarifies Rule on Public Disclosure of Settlement Agreements Involving Judicial Officers

May 24, 2018

Settlement agreements involving judicial officers, including those involving sexual harassment or discrimination, must be disclosed if public funds were spent in payment of the settlement.

Categories: Judicial Council

Courts Celebrate Jurors

May 23, 2018

On May 14-18, courts celebrated the single largest cohort of court users in the nation—citizens appearing for jury duty.

Categories: CA Superior Courts, Judicial Council

Council to Consider Rule on Public Disclosure of Settlement Agreements Involving Judicial Officers

May 17, 2018

The Judicial Council at its May 24 business meeting will consider revising a rule of court to clarify that any settlement agreements involving judicial officers for which public funds were spent must be disclosed in response to public records requests.

Categories: Judicial Council

Peer Courts = Juror Training

May 14, 2018

The Constitutional promise of being tried by a “jury of your peers” is taken to the extreme in peer courts, an alternative approach to the traditional juvenile justice system where teens judge other teens.

Categories: Civics/Power of Democracy