On Friday of last week, the [U.S.] Supreme Court granted review in five cases from the end-of-summer “long conference.” And then on Monday, the court relisted 17 long conference cases for consideration a second time at this week’s conference.

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.