(Subscription required) As wildfires raged through some of the wealthiest parts of greater Los Angeles this week, California policymakers were forced to grapple with a lingering question: when does the math stop working? When it does, litigation will could determine who pays the price.

(Subscription required) Deputy Public Defender Zahra R. Mohammed emphasizes that, "Judge Priver reads all the case law cited by both sides, does her own research, and makes logical, thought-out rulings. She's compassionate and considers each client's lived traumas, especially in resentencing cases."

The largest U.S. federal appeals court is closing its courthouse in Pasadena, California for the next week and shifting to hearing previously-scheduled arguments there remotely in light of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles County.

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal affirmed Wednesday an award of $493,577.10 in attorney fees to a plaintiff—under a statute authorizing costs to be paid to the prevailing party in a civil action brought under the Fair Employment and Housing Act—even though the case was resolved through a confidential settlement agreement, the terms of which were unknown to the court.