(Subscription required) Federal CJA attorneys will finally receive delayed payments, but defenders warn staffing won't rebound quickly. A memo dispute erupted after prosecutors filed an ex parte brief during the funding crisis.

(Subscription required) A federal judge in Los Angeles issued a preliminary injunction requiring immigration officials to give detainees reliable, private access to legal counsel and prohibiting interference.

Div. Three if the Fourth District Court of Appeal has decreed that a judge must determine, on remand, the amount of sanctions to be paid based on the appellant having impermissibly cited unpublished cases in its briefs on appeal and committing other violations of the rules of court and is also to decide whether the sums are to be paid by the party, its lawyer, or both.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a man was properly convicted of second-degree murder relating to an Orange County freeway shooting that killed a child sitting in the backseat of his mother’s car, rejecting the defendant’s assertion that the judgment was invalidated due to the court’s use of a since-replaced jury instruction on implied malice.