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Group will build on practices and procedures developed during the pandemic.

The Judicial Council of California has launched the Pandemic Continuity of Operations Working Group, which will quickly collect best practices and publish a framework to help the state's 58 superior courts restore interrupted services in the wake of the...

Judicial Council to receive report about successful court practices that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic

Guide addresses more than 200 questions and topics related to facilities, personnel, jury management, case management and processing, and communications.

Emergency meeting of court and branch leaders from around the state will focus on measures to ensure California courts can meet stringent health directives while also providing due process and access to justice.

Judges now have discretion to backdate modification requests for child, spousal, partner, or family support orders during the state of emergency.

Chief Justice’s Workgroup on Post-Pandemic Initiatives also finds remote hearings spurred case resolutions in juvenile cases, child support hearings.

Recent investments in technology and innovations in hybrid court design help connect more forever families.

The Judicial Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday, April 6, at 12:20 p.m. via teleconference, to consider a slate of 11 temporary emergency rules in response to the COVID-19 health crisis.

Delayed by COVID-19 for nearly three months in most parts of the state, jury trials are resuming in counties large and small.

The measures aim to continue essential court services while guarding the health and safety of the public, court employees, attorneys, litigants, judicial officers, law enforcement, and staff and inmates in detention facilities.

Court self-help centers aim to help Californians without legal representation navigate the court system.