(Subscription required) Judge Kimberly A. Repecka, a former public defender elected to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2024, presides over a high-volume domestic violence restraining order calendar in Pasadena, where many litigants appear without counsel. She emphasizes preparation, clear procedures and managing a demanding caseload. 

(Subscription required) The nearly 30-year-old Los Angeles County courtroom numbering system that sent those in search of Department 1 to Room Number 34 in Stanley Mosk Courthouse will end on May 4, and the often confusing system will be changed in other courthouses in the future.

Federal courts have uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children who are born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or temporarily.

Div. Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has rejected the assertion by a now-disbarred attorney that a trial judge erred in failing to consider his ability to pay as a factor in mitigation before imposing a statutory penalty for the bad faith taking of property from a trust.