(Subscription required) Orange County Superior Court Judge John R. Zitny has helped reshape judicial education by tailoring training to judges' needs, promoting small-group instruction and encouraging thoughtful adoption of new technologies while drawing on decades of trial experience.

The California Supreme Court has ordered the appeals court that overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders lineman Dana Stubblefield to reconsider the case and decide whether a prosecutor’s racial comments denied him a fair trial.

Arizona, California and Nevada would take less water from the Colorado River under a proposal announced Friday by the federal government to stave off crisis in the beleaguered waterway.

(Subscription required) The California Supreme Court held that a prosecutor's claim that a prospective juror was "less attentive" than others is not enough to support a peremptory strike, saying a 2022 California law aimed at prohibiting bias in juror removals requires more than a behavioral reason.