The preliminary injunction would essentially extend a temporary restraining order that U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued in July, requiring federal immigration agencies to allow legal visitation at the B-18 detention facility seven days a week.

(Subscription required) Several liberal judges issue sharp dissents as the appeals court lets stand a stay of a San Francisco judge's order stopping the use of federalized National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

Div. Six of the Court of Appeal for this district yesterday repudiated a 2022 decision that expands upon statutory language by conferring upon certain inmates who were sentenced, as juveniles, to the “equivalent” of a life sentence without possibility of parole the right to petition for resentencing.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday, in a matter of first impression, that a provision of the Racial Justice Act, providing that an error relating to the ruling on an objection to the exercise of a peremptory challenge is to be “deemed prejudicial,” only applies when a prospective panelist is wrongly excluded from service and not when the juror is improperly seated.