The California Supreme Court held Thursday that a group of plaintiffs was not precluded from filing a complaint in California against a school district and a former counselor over purported instances of sexual abuse based on having earlier filed and then voluntarily dismissed nearly identical actions in state and federal courts.

A routine progress hearing in Yolo County Superior Court took an unexpected turn Thursday when Judge Catherine Hohenwarter questioned what appeared to be artificial intelligence-generated language in a progress report submitted on behalf of an accused, raising concerns about the use of AI in documents filed with the court.

Div. Five of the First District Court of Appeal has held that a defendant who filed a motion alleging racial bias after he was convicted of attempted robbery with a firearm based on statistics from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, purportedly showing that Black defendants faced gun allegations in Alameda County more often than White suspects, may be entitled to discovery of eight years of data from the local prosecutorial office.

(Subscription required) The son of Filipino immigrants and a former gang member, Judge Bryan F. Clavecilla says his background gives him a unique perspective on prosecutorial discretion, bail decisions and helping people who feel marginalized.