(Subscription required) The overall pass rate on California's July 2025 bar exam inched slightly higher year-over-year to 54.8%, according to statistics released Friday by the state bar. Just over 4,000 people passed the test, which reverted to a National Conference of Bar Examiners-written format after the February exam, designed to be taken online, melted down amid widespread technical and planning errors.

First declared in 1999, the Judicial Council has continued to reaffirm this resolution to demonstrate its commitment to judicial procedures and collaborative practices that promote timely case resolution and permanence for children and youth in foster care including safe return to the family home (reunification), adoption, or legal guardianship.

Previously, court clerks had to identify which of the county’s 88 law enforcement agencies to notify about a firearm relinquishment by looking up addresses for the accused, which could take multiple days, Presiding Judge Sergio C. Tapia II of the L.A. County Superior Court said during a news conference. Now, “notices are sent within minutes” to the appropriate agencies, Tapia said.

(Subscription required) Republican voters, candidates and the state GOP sued to block Proposition 50, alleging California's new congressional map unconstitutionally favors Hispanic voters through race-based redistricting violating the 14th and 15th Amendments.