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(Subscription required) Because she dedicated her professional career to family law for 20 years, "I think I got to see the other side of it, and what the litigants go through," she said. One of her objectives in the courtroom is to "let them try to see the bigger picture and long-term effects of whatever decision they were making ... that may have been emotionally driven."

A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 Saturday to grant the state’s request for a stay of the Oct. 19 ruling by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego that the 1989 law violates the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Saturday that California's assault weapons ban will remain in force while the state attorney general appeals a lower court decision declaring the 30-year-old measure unconstitutional.