(Subscription required) Associate Justices Kelli Evans and Joshua Groban each received roughly 70% support statewide, according to vote counts posted Wednesday morning. Both justices won backing for 12-year terms in 56 of California’s 58 counties; only voting majorities in the sparsely populated northeast counties of Modoc and Lassen said “no.”

On Oct. 19–20, the Judicial Branch Data Analytics Summit in San Francisco gathered professionals from across California to share best practices and examples of how data can be effectively utilized to support court functions. More than 300 individuals from more than 40 courts participated in the event.

(Subscription required) A Los Angeles judge postponed the first Eaton Fire bellwether trial by six weeks but rejected Southern California Edison's request for a nearly five-month delay, finding that the utility had failed to justify additional months of discovery.

(Subscription required) The State Bar is urging a judge to reject attorney Paul R. Kiesel's bid to subpoena more than a decade of records from the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, the Department of Water and Power, and law firms involved in the DWP billing scandal, arguing that the discovery would be excessive and largely duplicative.