News Release - March 23, 2021
Group will build on practices and procedures developed during the pandemic.
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News Release - March 12, 2021
"We have continued to strive and struggle to balance equal access to justice with a safe physical and remote court environment, and to continue to conduct the people’s business amid the pandemic," the Chief Justice said.
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News Release - February 3, 2021
Draft opinion provides guidance to judges on advising family members on matters that implicate legal issues. Deadline to comment is March 22.
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Feature - December 8, 2020
By the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
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News Release - November 13, 2020
Also reviewed best practices for courts to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act and proclaimed November as Court Adoption and Permanency Month
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News Release - November 6, 2020
Will also review toolkit of best practices on complying with the Indian Child Welfare Act
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News Release - October 28, 2020
Fresno City College business law students will have the opportunity to virtually attend a public live-stream video of oral argument and participate in a question-and-answer session with several of the justices via an online meeting platform.
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News Release - October 5, 2020
FROM THE OFFICE OF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM—Governor Gavin Newsom today announced his nomination of Justice Martin Jenkins (Ret.) for Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.
Justice Jenkins has held several prominent state and federal judicial positions throughout his career. He would be the first openly gay California Supreme Court justice and only the third African American man ever to serve on the state’s highest court. It has been 29 years since an African American man has served on the California Supreme Court.
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Feature - September 23, 2020
Over the past week, justices of the California Supreme Court have reflected on the personal impact U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on their lives and careers.
"It feels impossible to overestimate the importance that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on my generation of female lawyers and jurists," wrote Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye. "She was one of ours."
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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis that threatens the lives, health and safety of all Californians.
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Created by constitutional amendment, the council is the policymaking body for California’s state court system
The 21 voting members include the Chief Justice, 14 judicial officers, 4 attorneys, and 1 member from each house of the Legislature
The council also has advisory members who include judicial officers and court executives or administrators
The council carries out much of its work through the hundreds of volunteers on its
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Collaborative justice courts have a dedicated calendar and judge to address specific types of issues
California currently has more than 400 collaborative justice courts in all but two small jurisdictions
Most drug court caseloads average between 75 and 100 participants while other collaborative courts tend to have smaller caseloads
Collaborative justice courts, also called problem-solving courts, promote accountability for youth and adults by combining judicial supervision with services and treatment to help them address the issues that led to the