In late March, Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, amended a spot bill, SB 47, to order the State Auditor to conduct an audit of the February 2025 bar exam. The bill would direct the auditor to submit findings “as soon as possible” to the Bar’s board of trustees, the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court and the Senate Judiciary Committee and its Assembly counterpart.

One of the cases is Taking Offense v. State of California, which by our count is the second oldest non-capital case on the court’s docket.

After four conferences in a row without a straight grant, yesterday’s conference added two new cases to the docket. It was a big double conference; the court ruled on 171 matters.

The Supreme Court today said it will answer this question posed by the Ninth Circuit in Pitt v.