Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday upheld, in a divided opinion, the first-degree murder conviction of a man who argued that his right to a fair trial was undermined by a judge’s failure to adequately investigate the circumstances surrounding a juror’s dismissal from the panel after deliberations had begun.

SB 574, sent to the governor with bipartisan votes in both houses last week, requires attorneys to disclose when they use ChatGPT, Claude or any other generative AI platform to produce court-submitted documents. Attorneys would also be required to ensure the accuracy of AI-generated materials and not to input any private client information into a nonconfidential AI tool.

(Subscription required) After nearly two decades as a public defender, Tsang is drawing on lessons about humanity, patience and consequences in her Long Beach family law courtroom.

(Subscription required) The high court on Wednesday denied the firm’s petition for review and request to depublish the First District Court of Appeal’s June opinion in Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing (Lipeles). The First District panel agreed with San Francisco trial court judge that the plaintiffs firm and three of its attorneys should pay a penalty for including “false citations and misrepresentations in their seemingly non-meritorious” pleading in a PAGA case.