(Subscription required) Superior Court Judge Hayden A. Zacky oversees some of Los Angeles County's most serious felony cases -- from high-profile murder retrials to decades-old resentencing petitions.

The issue before the Supreme Court concerns the interpretation of California Insurance Code statutes concerning lapse and termination of life insurance policies “issued or delivered in this state.”

(Subscription required) Judge William Alsup denied Anthropic's bid to pause a major copyright trial over pirated books used to train AI, rejecting claims he was rushing proceedings before taking inactive status.

The Supreme Court will file its opinion in Holland v. Silverscreen Healthcare on August 14. Holland involves this question: In a lawsuit against a skilled nursing facility arising from the facility’s alleged failure to protect a decedent from falls and infection, can the facility rely on an arbitration agreement signed only by the decedent to compel the decedent’s heirs to arbitrate a wrongful death claim?