Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has ordered reinstatement of a felony charge of brandishing a firearm at a person in a motor vehicle, rejecting the trial judge’s view—also one expressed in a 1996 opinion from the First District—that the victim must have experienced fright based on the incident.

(Subscription required) Thursday's denial came three years after the court issued a similar unexplained order granting the Silicon Valley giants' 2022 request to block social media regulations passed by Texas. The order is yet another example of the lack of clarity surrounding the high court's emergency docket.

After repairs were made in May, the court's operations resumed on May 20, said Stenderup. However, the second floor of the courthouse still needed to be put back in order, requiring some services to be temporarily moved.

(Subscription required) Bar passage rates increased from 2023 to 2024 for all takers except July repeat examinees. Thirty-seven jurisdictions saw an increase in first-time bar passage rate between 2023 and 2024. The majority of jurisdictions increase from one to five percentage points.