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  • Judicial Profile: Riverside County Judge Francisco Navarro

    Daily Journal
    October 9, 2025

    (Subscription required) Riverside veterans court thrives under Judge Francisco Navarro's leadership. "As a judge you're still trying to make sure you do justice to the best of your abilities, properly, efficiently, and apply the law to everyone in front of you," he said.

  • Marbury v. Madison Doesn’t Bar Suit Against Drug-Maker

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    October 9, 2025

    The political question doctrine, which harks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1803 decision in Marbury v. Madison, does not bar a putative class action against a biotechnology company that makes an anti-malaria drug that the four named plaintiffs say they were subjected to while in the U.S. military and which they allege caused them to suffer neuropsychiatric side effects, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held.

  • Bill Expanding Defendants’ Discovery Rights in Post-Conviction Proceedings Is Signed

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    October 9, 2025

    Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation expanding a criminal defendant’s right to discovery in post-conviction proceedings relating to the filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus or a motion to vacate a judgment, removing provisions limiting the entitlement to cases involving strike offenses with significant sentences and defining the discoverable materials to include a prosecutor’s jury selection notes.

  • Calling Witness ‘Snitch’ Might Be Enough to Support Charges

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    October 9, 2025