Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has reversed an alleged killer’s judgment of conviction relating to a decision by the trial court to kick a juror, who was the “likely” sole holdout against a finding of guilt on a second-degree murder charge, saying the dismissal was not supported when “looking at the conduct” at issue rather than the other panelists’ characterizations of her behavior.

The Court of Appeal for this district yesterday invalidated a sentence, in obedience to a recent California Supreme Court decision, with the majority indicating a belief that the wrong result was being reached.

(Subscription required) A state appellate panel has upheld $6,000 in sanctions against a Southern California law firm’s attorneys for submitting a brief marred by generative artificial intelligence mistakes in what a trial judge called “the worst example of misconduct by a lawyer that I think I’ve ever seen since I’ve been on the bench.”

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall ‌exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative."