(Subscription required) Gov. Gavin Newsom has moved to fill a third of the nine vacancies on California’s courts of appeals, naming three justices to three districts across the state in a Thursday night announcement.

The Judicial Council at its Feb. 20 meeting approved funding for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County to continue hosting a shared solution that sends automated text message notifications—such as hearing reminders—to court users in nine participating courts. This technology funding is part of a state modernization grant program managed by the council that helps courts improve services to the public. 

(Subscription required) The judge in the social media addiction trial in Los Angeles struck one of the lead lawyers from the plaintiffs’ steering committee after he gave an interview on camera this week with the BBC and took a selfie from inside the courthouse.

Retired Administrative Presiding Justice of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Daniel Kremer passed on February 17, 2026.  Presiding Justice Kremer is a 1960 graduate of Stanford University with a degree in political science and a 1963 graduate of Stanford Law School.