The Third District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial judge erred in denying summary judgment to a Nevada County sheriff’s deputy—who deployed his taser against a knife-wielding mother in the presence of her children—in an action filed by the minors after the woman was fatally shot by another officer at the scene, finding the defendant acted reasonably as a matter of law.

A group of seven retired Superior Court judges who are over the age of 70 has failed to persuade the First District Court of Appeal that a 2018 policy instituted by then-Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye barring ex-jurists from continuing to sit on assignment once they had done so for 1,320 days—the equivalent of a six-year term of office—constitutes unlawful age-discrimination based on a “disparate impact” on oldsters.

The State Bar Board of Trustees has voted in favor of recommending that attorney-hopefuls who failed or withdrew from the problem-riddled February bar exam be offered provisional licensure under the supervision of admitted attorneys.

California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli M. Evans will be the first guest speaker at the commencements of the University of California, Davis, as its School of Law leads off the spring graduation season Friday.