The Supreme Court today approved a new court rule — proposed by the State Bar and effective next month — that creates a temporary supervised provisional license program for persons who became eligible to take the bar exam between December 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020. Under the rule, the program ends on June 1, 2022.

The California statute invoked by Gov. Gavin Newsom in support of his pandemic lockdown suffers the same flaws that doomed Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's reign-by-emergency order, says professor.

The Supreme Court of California on Thursday approved a new rule creating the Provisional Licensure Program for 2020 law school graduates, after the COVID-19 health pandemic forced delay of the California Bar Examination.

A clerk with the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles settled her lawsuit alleging a former justice sexually harassed her for five years before he was removed from the bench in June for a history of such misconduct with multiple women.

(Subscription required) The bar has started informing applicants to expect a remote administration of the exam in February. With the National Conference of Bar Examiners announcement, a remote exam is even more likely, Bates said.

(Subscription required) The purpose of the hearing is to determine whether Peterson needs to be appointed a public defender or has retained private trial counsel, said Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager.

(Subscription required) The attorneys ask the Judicial Council to issue clear guidance to superior courts to ensure adequate safeguards are being enforced to protect the health of defendants waiting to appear in court. And it calls for the creation of a work group of court stakeholders to promulgate these standards. A spokeswoman said Tuesday the Judicial Council is reviewing the letter.

Finding that state officials have acted with “deliberate indifference” to the health of prisoners at San Quentin — where 75% of them have tested positive for the coronavirus and 28 have died — a state appeals court took the unprecedented step Tuesday of ordering at least half of the prison’s 2,900 inmates transferred or released.

The California Supreme Court denied Monsanto’s appeal Wednesday of a San Francisco jury’s groundbreaking verdict that found the company’s widely used herbicide caused a school groundskeeper’s cancer and that the company disregarded public safety in marketing its product.

It will be the third and, most probably, the last batch of oral arguments where pro tems will be needed for that vacancy; Martin Jenkins’s appointment to the court should be confirmed the following week.