A Times investigation found that former partners or close relatives were charged in the deaths of at least 63 women who were killed in 2024 and 2025 in L.A. County. Women in at least 10 of those cases had filed for restraining orders, four of which were granted by judges.

(Subscription required) Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to seek death against Nick Reiner, but attorneys say capital punishment remains legally viable in California, where prosecutors in some counties continue to pursue and obtain death sentences even as executions remain frozen.

Div. Four of the First District Court of Appeal has declared that although it’s lawful to film someone who is in public without obtaining the person’s consent, that does not preclude issuance of a restraining order where the conduct amounts to harassment.

Unreasonableness on the part of a Superior Court clerk’s office in bouncing a notice of appeal has, for the second time in a period of less than a month, drawn scorn of a court of appeal, with the First District’s Div. Five holding that there was no justification for the rejection of such a document and that a judge subsequently erred in sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend and ordering a judgment of dismissal.