(Subscription required) The Los Angeles judge manages a 700-case civil calendar by staying months ahead, pushing cases toward earlier resolution, and digging into the legal questions that still challenge her after more than four decades on the bench. 

(Subscription required) An appeals court has ruled that the city of Fresno can rename a street after disgraced labor icon Cesar Chavez -- even though the city no longer wants to. The 5th District Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a lower court ruling rejecting a challenge by Community Compact, a local activist group that argued Chavez had little connection to Fresno and that the renaming amounted to compelled political speech.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a ban on filing charges that could have been brought during an earlier prosecution does not preclude a criminal complaint accusing a man of violating a Penal Code section relating to large-capacity magazines where similar counts were dismissed in an earlier case in the interests of justice due to a since-vacated federal decision declaring the law unconstitutional.

(Subscription required) San Bernardino Superior Court Commissioner Margaret Beare draws on years in dependency and mental health law to ensure litigants -- particularly those representing themselves -- have a meaningful opportunity to present their case.