• California’s Prop. 36 promised ‘mass treatment’ for defendants. A new study shows how it’s going

    CalMatters
    October 13, 2025

    The biggest study yet on California’s tough-on-crime ballot measure Proposition 36 shows few people are finding their way into the treatment it promised.

  • San Bernardino Court unveils mobile courtroom

    Inland Empire Weekly
    October 12, 2025

    (Subscription required) The RV will provide in-person services in remote areas, to ensure litigants without adequate transportation to the county’s courthouses can still appear at hearings.

  • Anti-SLAPP Motion Denials Are Not Immediately Appealable

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    October 10, 2025

    An en banc panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that an order denying a special motion to strike a complaint filed under California’s anti-SLAPP statute is not immediately appealable in federal court under the collateral decree doctrine, overruling a 2003 decision.

  • The justices return — and so do the relists

    SCOTUSBlog
    October 10, 2025

    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.