(Subscription required) Jury selection began Tuesday in Los Angeles County for a damages-only trial against Southern California Edison regarding the years-long, coordinated Thomas Fire and debris flow litigation.

While the labor board doesn’t track incidents of AI-generated “phantom” citations in filings, De La Torre said anecdotally there has been an increase in fabricated legal statements in filings submitted to the agency.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that the right of confrontation by accusers was not breached by virtue of the government’s non-production as a witness at a parole revocation hearing the woman whom the defendant was accused of having beaten.

(Subscription required) Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Israel Claustro admitted Monday to defrauding California's workers' compensation system through a medical corporation he secretly operated while serving as a prosecutor.