The three lower basin states of Arizona, California, and Nevada whittled their take from the river last year. Their combined consumption of just under 5.8 million acre-feet is the lowest annual total since 1983. That represents a decline of 13 percent compared to 2022, when Lake Mead, the basin’s largest reservoir hit a record low and a simmering crisis morphed into a full-blown emergency.

The Superior Court of California, County of Kern sought to prove their dedication to improving access to justice through introducing an online tool. The Court introduced MyCitations, an innovative online tool that determines the ability to pay fines, resulting from a traffic violation.

A new state Supreme Court ruling on a highly controversial housing project in Berkeley may move the needle on CEQA reform. That decision ended a three-year battle over a 1,200-unit student housing complex that the University of California wants to build on People’s Park, the legendary site of civil rights and antiwar demonstrations in the 1960s.

Div. Seven of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a 2023 statute—enacted as part of a realignment of the juvenile justice system—providing for the sentencing of juvenile offenders to secure youth treatment facilities only permits the application of precommitment custody credits against the maximum term of commitment, rather than the baseline.