(Subscription required) On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit was tasked with determining whether Spanish or California law applied in deciding ownership of a Camille Pissarro painting stolen by Nazis in 1939 Germany.
(Subscription required) 9th Circuit Judge Lucy H. Koh, an appointee of President Joe Biden, ruled that the city’s new arguments, raised on appeal, were waived because they did not raise them before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu of Oakland.
To keep more police on patrols, law enforcement groups would like officers to spend less time in court. Legislation would allow non-sworn community service officers to testify in preliminary hearings instead of police.
State bar trustees are due on Thursday to vote on a plan that would reduce the number of large testing sites to four or five, compared with seven last year. Locations in Sacramento and Santa Clara would be eliminated under the plan, while bar officials are still working to secure a test site in San Diego.