The Judicial Council of California today unanimously voted to select Shelley Curran as the next Administrative Director. Curran will assume the role Jan. 1, following the retirement of Acting Administrative Director Millicent Tidwell.

(Subscription required) A judge denied for a third time former State Bar executive director Joseph L. Dunn’s motion to drop charges that he misled the State Bar about how agency funds would be used in a 2014 trip to Mongolia.

California is two weeks away from launching its long-awaited "care courts" program, which is designed to help people with mental illness get off of the streets and into treatment. The law allows family members, social workers and court employees to refer people with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders to "care court", then a judge will be able to order treatment plans.

Bonta said Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and BP — along with the American Petroleum Institute (API) — have long known “that the burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change — but have fed us lies and mistruths to further their record-breaking profits at the expense of our environment.”