The Honorable Jesus Rodriguez, Assistant Presiding Judge of the Butte County Superior Court, received the Judicial Officer of the Year Award at the 2025 Annual Chief Probation Officers of California Awards Ceremony held in Redding. This recognition highlights his exceptional leadership and commitment to justice and rehabilitation.

(Subscription required) A $10,000 sanctions case revealed how deeply generative AI unsettles the legal system. The passion it inspires isn't new. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics wrestled with the same anxieties about imitation, untrained power, and institutional fragility. Their wisdom offers a roadmap.

Despite judges recently finding that attorneys in two San Diego cases filed motions containing fake citations and quotes, attorneys say AI used with guardrails can help improve their work. 

(Subscription required) In a case that interrogates the scope of the federal Ending Forced Arbitration Act and the definition of sexual harassment under state laws, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered whether to uphold the denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a sex discrimination and harassment suit brought against a biopharmaceutical company by its ex-chief financial officer.