The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold public in-person hearings in San Francisco on Aug. 6 to consider four appointments to California’s Courts of Appeal in Ventura, Los Angeles, Fresno, and San Jose.

A company that required its employees to remain on the premises during 15-minute breaks ran afoul of a requirement that employers not exercise control over activities engaged in during rest periods, the Third District Court of Appeal declared yesterday, broadening a 2016 holding by the California Supreme Court and, as the appellant sees it, contracting that decision.

The California Supreme Court held Thursday that a defendant is entitled to a full resentencing hearing, at which courts are directed to apply any ameliorative changes in the law to reduce a petitioner’s punishment absent a finding that such a sentence would endanger public safety, where his judgment included a now-defunct prior-prison enhancement, even if the penalty associated with the allegation was stricken.

The California Supreme Court held Thursday that a group of plaintiffs was not precluded from filing a complaint in California against a school district and a former counselor over purported instances of sexual abuse based on having earlier filed and then voluntarily dismissed nearly identical actions in state and federal courts.