Tyler Robinson’s attorneys want cameras banned from a Utah courtroom, pointing to sometimes sensationalist media coverage they fear will foster widespread bias against their client as he faces prosecution in last September’s shooting death of the conservative activist on a college campus.

(Subscription required) Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday moved to fill two vacancies on the Fourth District Court of Appeal, choosing two trial court judges for seats in San Diego and Santa Ana.

(Subscription required) A California appellate court reversed a $41 million judgment against Suzuki Motor Corp. in a defective motorcycle brake case, ordering a new trial on liability and compensatory damages while barring any retrial on punitive damages.

A defendant who was convicted of exchanging sexually explicit electronic messages with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl—but was actually a vice detective—was wrongfully put to the choice of waiving his entrapment defense or having his conviction of a sex offense 50 years earlier brought up, Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday.