(Subscription required) “This order, like the others, seeks to chill legal representation the administration doesn’t like, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers. It thus violates the Constitution and the Court will enjoin its operation in full,” Bates wrote.

(Subscription required) Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. issued an order on Friday temporarily shielding the U.S. DOGE Service from having to turn over extensive records in a transparency lawsuit brought by a government watchdog group.

(Subscription required) Friday was the first day of the Los Angeles County courts' new way of handling Notices of Settlement, to improve efficiency in the face of a 48% increase in unlimited civil filings in the past 17 years.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, for the second time, yesterday denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus sought by a man who, in 1991, beat, raped and murdered his girlfriend, and whose release on parole was blocked by Gov. Gavin Newsom.