Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero joined judges and staff from the Superior Court of Shasta County and the Superior Court of Glenn County to officially commemorate courthouses in Redding and Willows on Apr. 11 and 12, respectively.

Kings County growers will face millions of dollars in fees and a mandate to report groundwater pumping after California officials voted unanimously today to put local agencies on probation for failing to protect the region’s underground water supply.

The Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals held yesterday that police officers who used their body weight to hold down and restrain a man—who died of compression asphyxia—so that he could be strapped to a backboard and transported to a hospital for mental-health treatment are entitled to qualified immunity because they were acting at the direction of medical personnel and not in violation of an established rule or obvious standard.

(Subscription required) Boucek gained her insight to the pro per experience and other perspectives through her past private practice, managing the family law facilitator's office in a San Diego County courthouse and now being a neutral herself.