(Subscription required) Several liberal judges issue sharp dissents as the appeals court lets stand a stay of a San Francisco judge's order stopping the use of federalized National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

Div. Six of the Court of Appeal for this district yesterday repudiated a 2022 decision that expands upon statutory language by conferring upon certain inmates who were sentenced, as juveniles, to the “equivalent” of a life sentence without possibility of parole the right to petition for resentencing.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday, in a matter of first impression, that a provision of the Racial Justice Act, providing that an error relating to the ruling on an objection to the exercise of a peremptory challenge is to be “deemed prejudicial,” only applies when a prospective panelist is wrongly excluded from service and not when the juror is improperly seated.

The structural steel phase of the construction of the new courthouse for Mendocino County has been completed, according to Dave Canada, project manager for Hensel Phelps Construction Company.