(Subscription required) San Luis Obispo Superior Court Judge Kenneth R. McDaniel experienced both dependency and custody proceedings as a child. Decades later, he presides over family court with a philosophy shaped by what that felt like.

(Subscription required) Four rulings set limits on automatic reversal, sharpening a fight between lawmakers, judges and advocates over whether racism can be "harmless."

The state high court decided on May 28 that California Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6—the judicial disqualification process for judges believed to be prejudiced against a party—violates the separation of powers and can be challenged.

A federal appeals court fined two Southern California lawyers $2,500 each and suspended them from practice in the court for six months Wednesday after finding that they used artificial intelligence to cite nonexistent cases to the court and then claimed they hadn’t knowingly done so.