Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial attorney is not rendered “ineffective” due to the imposition of a “temporary suspension” of his license to practice law for purported noncompliance with the State Bar’s relatively new client trust account reporting requirements.

Suppression of the fruits of a warrantless search of cellphone was not required where the device had belonged to a man who had been slain and police officers believed that the decedent’s mother now owned the instrument and that her consent sufficed, the Sixth District Court of Appeal has held.

The public remarks from Chief Justice John Roberts were his first since President Trump excoriated the justices who ruled against his tariffs in harsh and personal terms.

The latest addition to the Sacramento skyline may also be its most anticipated: a gleaming 18-story courthouse with 53 courtrooms and 540,000 square feet of real estate to replace an aging downtown courthouse long regarded as undersized, unsafe, overcrowded and obsolete.