Two San Francisco Superior Court judges withstood election challenges this year from candidates who considerably outspent them. Four judges survived challenges from public defenders who ran against them in 2018.

(Subscription required) Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee criticized state bar leaders' decision to give hefty pay raises to employees last year without seeking legislative approval, and money, first.

Div. Four of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a resentencing hearing is required where the jury was instructed on the natural and probable consequences doctrine of murder liability on the part of an aider and abettor—a now-retroactively-invalid theory under amended Penal Code §§188 and 189—even if the prosecution only argued a theory based on an express intent to kill.

(Subscription required) Day one of an "unusual" three-day gender discrimination trial between Tubi, Inc., Fox Corp., and a former Tubi executive was marred by objections and judicial admonishment directed at the plaintiffs' lead attorney, who was accused of exceeding the scope of the trial.