(Subscription required) Superior Court Judge Annabelle G. Cortez presides over one of California's few specialty courts for sexually exploited youths, merging law, empathy, and structure in a courtroom designed for healing.

Completed in November 2023, the renovation of the Willows Courthouse in Glenn County achieved upgrades to the building without compromising the facility’s historic integrity. Recognizing this achievement, the California Preservation Foundation recently awarded the renovation project with its Preservation Design Award for Rehabilitation, which honors the best historic preservation projects in California.

(Subscription required) AI developments are rapidly reshaping the legal landscape, with key issues like copyright infringement, trademark misuse, defamation, right of publicity, and unfair competition highlighted through the hypothetical AI-created film.

Sheriff’s deputies who barged into a home by the back door, without a warrant, did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of the owner of the abode, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday, because the officers were in “hot pursuit” of a man who had been spotted running a stop sign, a felony under California law.