(Subscription required) Our current focus is on the digital court, which includes remote access to court services, including court functions like online traffic adjudication, court proceedings, and electronic submission of court filing or evidence and access to case records.

In Smith v. LoanMe, Inc., the Supreme Court today interprets a state statute as requiring a party, and not just an eavesdropper, to a call involving a cell or cordless phone to have consent from those on the call before recording it.

(Subscription required) A recent California Supreme Court ruling provides defense bar with powerful argument for pretrial release.

County jails are supposed to be places where people arrested and charged with crimes are held for a brief time while they make bail or await their day in court. But in San Diego County, at least 380 people have spent more than a year in county jails, according to an analysis of jail records.