Sotomayor was joined by California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin H. Liu and U.S. District Court Judge Rachel P. Kovner ’01 — a former Crimson executive editor — in a packed Ames Courtroom. Together, they judged the finalists, who had withstood a series of elimination rounds starting with 54 teams of HLS students.

San Diego’s now 3 1/2-year-old ballot measure to fund a long-sought convention center expansion will remain in limbo following a decision by the California Supreme Court to not review a contested court ruling on the initiative’s outcome at the ballot box.

(Subscription required) The judge said he is also a child of divorce and has been through divorce himself. "I have real experience that helps me to see what's really going on here and try to help people through a very difficult time because nobody's immune to tough times," he said.

(Subscription required) A State Bar judge is to decide Monday whether to pause or allow a third disciplinary proceeding in which bar prosecutors seek to involuntarily suspend the law license of former Girardi Keese attorney David R. Lira, the son-in-law of disbarred and indicted plaintiffs’ attorney Tom Girardi.