(Subscription required) The case concerns a crude oil refinery in Paramount that began converting to biofuel operations in 2011. AltAir Paramount, the owners of the site and a real party in interest in the case, modified the site to process biofuels, with all crude oil operations ceasing in 2017.

(Subscription required) His opinion, posted Friday but issued on Nov. 7, cited the 2nd District Court of Appeal decision in Los Angeles Waterkeeper v. State Water Resources Control Board, in which the water board’s constitutional and statutory duty to prevent waste and unreasonable use of water was at issue.

(Subscription required) Attorneys for Girardi, 84, say that the government failed to make a prima facie case during the competency hearing two months ago and all that was presented was speculation, according to a defense brief filed Friday in federal court in Los Angeles.

Currently serving as Chief Judge of the Yurok Tribal Court, Abby Abinanti was the first Native American woman to be admitted to the State Bar of California and is the first Native American woman to serve as a judicial officer in the state of California.