(Subscription required) The unanimous court held that prosecutors need only show that displaying a gun would cause a reasonable person to fear bodily harm, regardless of whether the victim was actually frightened.

Orange County’s South Junior High School earned its second Civic Learning Award of Excellence for its innovative and replicable civic engagement programs and for its broad inclusion of students in civic learning.

California judicial officers visited more than 80 schools and reached a record-breaking 5,200 California K–12 students to promote civic engagement.

This year’s candidates are Associate Justice Joshua Groban and Associate Justice Kelli M. Evans. The California Supreme Court reviews appellate court rulings, which allows the high court to address major unsettled questions in state law.