Since 2019, the Brennan Center has collected data detailing racial, ethnic, and gender demographics on state high courts across the country, and expanded the data collection in 2021 to include the professional backgrounds of justices who sit on these courts.

(Subscription required) After more than a decade handling traffic matters, Commissioner LaTonya S. Hadnot Prioleau brings patience to a courtroom where most defendants represent themselves and even familiar violations can produce surprises.

The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles’ appeal regarding its lawsuit challenging the eviction threshold of the City of Los Angeles.

The Sixth District Court of Appeal has held that while an anti-SLAPP motion was properly granted in connection with allegations a woman made about her brother in an action to have a domestic violence retaining order imposed on him, videos posted on YouTube, accessible by the public, containing those accusations are not protected speech.