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  • Building Safer Communities, One Young Adult at a Time

    California Courts Newsroom
    January 20, 2026

    On December 18, nine individuals walked out of Department 26 in the San Francisco Hall of Justice with big smiles and heads held high. Their families and friends looked on proudly as they celebrated their remarkable achievements—graduating from the Young Adult Court (YAC) program and having their criminal records forever sealed.

  • Judicial Profile: Los Angeles County Judge James Horan

    Daily Journal
    January 20, 2026

    (Subscription required) For Horan, the contrast between criminal and family court is structural. Criminal cases arrive after devastation. Family cases arrive while there is still time to stop it. 

  • This [U.S.] Supreme Court case could strike a major blow to California’s vote-counting system

    San Francisco Chronicle
    January 20, 2026

    The future of mail-in voting — in particular, the power of states like California to count votes that are mailed by Election Day but received afterward — will soon be in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. 

  • O.C. Lawyer Rightly Sanctioned for Violating Order in Client’s Family Law Case—C.A.

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    January 20, 2026

    Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has affirmed an order imposing a $1,500 sanction on an Orange County family law attorney for violating a court order by telling a client that she could ignore a decree directing that proceeds from the sale of a home were to be held in trust and taking the money as payment for outstanding legal fees.