(Subscription required) “If for whatever reason they are not able to offer it, then I can also consider, if appropriate obviously, judicial diversion,” he said. “I think I did at least two or three this week.” Kitahara characterizes his decisions as balancing fairness, compassion and rehabilitation with the required firmness and redirection of negative behavior.

(Subscription required) Amendments to California’s worker classification law didn’t apply to all freelance writers.

(Subscription required) The report released Wednesday showed that 3,098 people took the exam in February, compared to 4,205 in February 2020, but 1,151 passed this year, while 1,128 passed last year.

A federal appeals court has barred the deportation of a California woman who was tortured in her native Mexico by police who beat and choked her, held a gun to her head, and threatened to rape and kill her daughters unless she confessed to a child killing.