(Subscription required) Immigrant advocates sued Homeland Security and ICE, alleging new enforcement guidance unlawfully strips humanitarian protections and detains or deports crime victims, violating due process and decades-old policies safeguarding survivors of trafficking and abuse.

Police had no need to obtain a warrant to search a tent pitched on a public sidewalk, Div. Six of the Court of Appeal for this district declared yesterday, upholding the drug-dealing conviction of a man who resided in the structure.

Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal held yesterday that a potential juror’s youth does not render that person a member of a protected class triggering additional scrutiny for purposes of jury selection, declining to broaden the categories of statuses that attorneys are prohibited from considering in the voir dire process beyond those explicitly highlighted by the courts and the Legislature.

The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold public in-person hearings in San Francisco on Nov. 17 to consider three appointments to California’s Courts of Appeal in Los Angeles, Riverside, and Fresno.