State and local agencies in California must adhere to statutory deadlines in saying whether they will or won’t produce public records but are under no compulsion to provide them promptly, Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday, affirming a trial court determination that no writ relief lies even where there are delays of weeks or months.

Justice 250: Celebrating Your Constitutional Rights will be an evening on the flight deck of the USS Midway. It is slated for 5:30 p.m. July 2. Speakers will include California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Justice M. Margaret McKeown and San Diego County Bar Association President Tim Williams.

(Subscription required) A federal judge on Monday approved a $303 million settlement benefiting so-called volunteer coaches, including $90 million in attorneys' fees. They filed an antitrust claim three years ago claiming that schools engaged in illegal price-fixing by offering them only so-called "volunteer" coaching positions. 

The Fifth District Court of Appeal held Friday that a murderer facing life in prison without the possibility of parole is entitled to a full resentencing hearing—at which a judge must consider “any changes in law that reduce [penalties] or provide for judicial discretion”—based on the fact that his sentence includes three one-year enhancements under a now-defunct scheme authorizing additional custody time for previous terms of incarceration.