On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, justices of the California Supreme Court reflect on the importance of justice and the rule of law as embodied in the United States and California constitutions.

(Subscription required) After decades in criminal law, the Orange County judge has found fresh challenges -- and new perspectives -- in civil litigation. 

As the Sacramento Superior Court settles into the new Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye Sacramento County Courthouse at 500 G Street, the former Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse has entered a very different phase of public life. The six-story downtown building, roughly 470,000 square feet, is now for sale at $13.6 million.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found discretionary immunity on the part of a deputy sheriff who undertook to provide a courtesy ride to a man who had been discharged from a hospital, determined based on his conduct that she needed to take him to a hospital and set out for the nearest one, but, when he groaned as if he were about to defecate, let him out of the vehicle, with his trying to board a moving train and being killed.