CARE Court allows family members, first responders and others to ask a court — by way of a petition — to step in with a voluntary care agreement for someone living with serious, untreated mental illness, such as schizophrenia, to receive community-based mental health services. County officials said petitions filed in L.A. County jumped by about 85% between November 2025 and March 2026, with March seeing a total of 68 petitions.

(Subscription required) Orange County Superior Court Judge John R. Zitny has helped reshape judicial education by tailoring training to judges' needs, promoting small-group instruction and encouraging thoughtful adoption of new technologies while drawing on decades of trial experience.

The California Supreme Court has ordered the appeals court that overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders lineman Dana Stubblefield to reconsider the case and decide whether a prosecutor’s racial comments denied him a fair trial.

Arizona, California and Nevada would take less water from the Colorado River under a proposal announced Friday by the federal government to stave off crisis in the beleaguered waterway.