(Subscription required) Wherever she went, and Hippach worked in several counties in California and Idaho, she said she always found interacting with people stimulating. "I love courtrooms. I love helping people. I love interacting with the public. I love finding individualized solutions to different problems," she said.

(Subscription required) The state’s high court declined to review an appeal from the law school, formerly named UC Hastings College of Law in honor of California’s first chief justice, Serranus Hastings. The school’s counsel from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher sought to throw out the lawsuit on the grounds that it violated the college’s protected speech under California’s anti-SLAPP statute.

Twelve Los Angeles County cities filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to postpone the controversial new zero-bail policy that allows some nonviolent defendants charged with felonies or misdemeanors to be cited and released after being arrested.

In this conclusion to our series on the California Supreme Court’s recent performance we argue that the valid concerns some have raised about the court’s opinion output do not constitute a crisis. Annual decision tallies are just one performance metric that decreases in significance when considered with other factors.