(Subscription required) "You shouldn't give up and there is room for change," is Woods' approach to convicted criminals who appear in her courtroom with repeated probation violations. "I think that's where judicial discretion is very important ... as to where this person goes, through a different route or back to serving another stint in prison."

(Subscription required) Since the state high court directed the bar to create the provisional licensure program to help law graduates facing challenges due to the pandemic to practice under supervision until June 1, 2022 without passing the exam, multiple groups have called for the program to apply to anyone who achieved the new, lower passing score of 1,390 as far back as July 2015.

In a case that could decide whether $4.5 billion will be used to improve regional transportation options, the California Supreme Court this week agreed to take up a challenge from taxpayer advocates on whether a $3 toll hike on Bay Area bridges is legal.

(Subscription required) The order comes as an amendment to a previous resumption order issued Friday, prioritizing criminal jury trials and noting most civil trials will be continued until January 2021, with non-jury trials resuming on or after Nov. 16.

(Subscription required) An Oct. 15 deadline written into the California state budget has come and gone without additional federal stimulus money. Had additional federal funds arrived, the courts system could have seen the restoration of $150 million in cuts.

According to city officials, a unit inside the jail was forced to quarantine after 43 presumptive cases were identified. They said 91 inmates were inside the housing unit at the time of testing.

‘The success of our strategy is demonstrated by our numbers,’ Sheriff Barnes says. Just 9 inmates are infected now, from a high of 220.

(Subscription required) While landlords call it a "nod" to their power, critics say the Center of Disease Control and Prevention's memo clarifying its nationwide eviction ban walks back protections and intimidates tenants into leaving before the ban expires.

Three of the five November cases are automatic death penalty appeals that go directly to the Supreme Court. The lone civil case will decide the retroactivity of one of the court’s most high-profile recent decisions.

The Commission on Judicial Appointments scheduled a public hearing for Nov. 10 beginning at 1 p.m. in the Supreme Court Courtroom—350 McAllister Street in San Francisco—to consider the nomination by Governor Gavin Newsom of Justice Martin J. Jenkins (Ret.) to the Supreme Court of California.