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.

(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.

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.

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.