Gov. Newsom introduced CARE Court to bring more people experiencing severe mental illness into treatment. It has helped fewer people than he projected, but a new law will make more people eligible for it.

(Subscription required) Riverside veterans court thrives under Judge Francisco Navarro's leadership. "As a judge you're still trying to make sure you do justice to the best of your abilities, properly, efficiently, and apply the law to everyone in front of you," he said.

The political question doctrine, which harks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1803 decision in Marbury v. Madison, does not bar a putative class action against a biotechnology company that makes an anti-malaria drug that the four named plaintiffs say they were subjected to while in the U.S. military and which they allege caused them to suffer neuropsychiatric side effects, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation expanding a criminal defendant’s right to discovery in post-conviction proceedings relating to the filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus or a motion to vacate a judgment, removing provisions limiting the entitlement to cases involving strike offenses with significant sentences and defining the discoverable materials to include a prosecutor’s jury selection notes.