Div. Three of the Court of Appeal for this district has reaffirmed the rule that attorneys for prevailing parties, in proceeding under a fee-shifting statute, may reconstruct hours they devoted to the case, rejecting the view of a Los Angeles Superior Court judge that appellate opinions so providing should be rejected as anachronistic in light of contemporary computerized time-record systems.

California prisons have failed for decades to provide staffing or treatment for many thousands of mentally ill inmates and must pay fines that could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

(Subscription required) An indignant John Eastman briefly took to the lectern Wednesday in his own disbarment appeal, telling a California State Bar Court panel that he was the victim of prosecutorial misstatements about his role in the 2020 presidential electoral count.

(Subscription required) AB 412 would require AI developers to disclose copyrighted materials used to train their models. While backed by creative professionals, the measure faces strong opposition from the tech industry, which calls it unworkable and legally dubious.