(Subscription required) The Judicial Council will consider a plan Friday to distribute the second half of a one-time $50 million 2020-21 budget item to deal with case delays caused by court shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perhaps in a show of compromise among elected officials, Monterey City Council members unanimously approved a letter of support for an Assembly bill that would extend an eviction moratorium out to the end of the year. But with one caveat.

The petition asked the court to address the “slow-motion catastrophe” caused by LAUSD and its superintendent “failing to meet their procedural obligations under California law to provide in-person instruction for those who cannot access the education curriculum through distance learning and to provide special education assessments and services to qualified students.”

In addition to legalizing cannabis use and sales, Prop. 64 was supposed to create a path to clearing past convictions for marijuana-related crimes like possession, sale, cultivation and trafficking.