California Attorney General Rob Bonta has scored two victories in the Third District Court of Appeal, with the justices holding, as they have in the past, that ballot proposition descriptions need only be non-misleading, not precise.

A divided California Supreme Court yesterday upheld the judgment of death and conviction of a man accused of hiring a friend to kill an elderly couple while they slept because he wanted to gain control of the husband’s aerospace hardware business, rejecting the assertion that the prosecutor violated the state and federal Constitutions by exercising peremptory challenges against Black potential jurors.

A new California Supreme Court ruling changes what happens when a court reporter is unavailable, allowing courts to use electronic recordings to ensure some low-income civil litigants can obtain a verbatim record for an appeal.

A State Bar investigation of the law practice of John Minnella of Tustin began in 2024 after a former client filed a complaint, alleging he paid $4,500 for a work permit through an asylum application, which he never received.