The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold public in-person hearings in San Francisco on Aug. 19-20 to consider eight appointments to California’s Courts of Appeal in Sacramento, San Jose, Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, and San Diego.

(Subscription required) The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that litigants may make settlement offers under Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 that present opposing parties with a choice between alternative settlement terms, rejecting the Court of Appeal's conclusion that such offers are categorically invalid.

An en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld an Arizona voter registration law Friday, concluding that a voter outreach organization does not have standing to challenge a law requiring cancellation of some voter registrations.

The California Supreme Court held yesterday that an inmate’s request for an accelerated trial timeline on pending cases, based on a Penal Code section providing that a defendant who is sentenced to prison may demand that other criminal prosecutions be fast-tracked, is premature until he is actually in the custody of the state penal institution.