The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a claim by a former civilian instructor at a U.S. Department of Defense language institute alleging that an Army police officer illegally seized his personal laptop in violation of the Fourth Amendment was properly dismissed for failure to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6).

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined yesterday that the appropriate standard on appeal for determining whether deportation would create an “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” is substantiality of the evidence, rather than abuse of discretion.

State Senator Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) is looking to help fund drug treatment courts and make them available for residents across California under two bills as local law enforcement agencies and courts start to arrest and convict people under a new state law.

A traffic ticket is not invalid based on use of a Judicial Council form that’s been superseded, the Appellate Division of the Riverside Superior Court has declared.