Records: Booted Tulare County, CA judge focus of $120,000 sex harassment case
The sexual harassment case against a Tulare County judge who was ousted from the bench is documented in a five-page settlement document released as a result of newly revised rules of disclosure in...
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Supreme Court agrees to hear civil forfeiture challenge
U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Photo Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite as reported by Forbes, 2/1/18. Billions of dollars in government revenue and one of the most contentious constitutional...
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California courts react to #MeToo Movement with rule changes
Photo Credit: Rob Kall from Bucks County, PA, USA (#womensmarch2018 Philly Philadelphia #MeToo) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. The #MeToo Movement swept California courts this spring, as the...
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‘Zero tolerance’ policy on border swells federal caseloads
Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego. Photo Credit: Nehrams2020 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons A Trump administration policy to criminally prosecute illegal border crossings has created...
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Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $4.69 billion in talc case
Photo credit: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press as reported by The New York Times on 7/12/18. Johnson & Johnson, in one of the largest punitive damage awards in history, must pay $4.69 billion to...
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In ruling, California visual artists lose rights to royalties
Artist Laddie John Dill was a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit seeking royalties under state law. Photo credit: Stephanie Diani for The New York Times as reported by The New York Times, 7/11/18....
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California gun owners argue computer crashes hinder assault weapon registration
Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press as reported by Los Angeles Times on 7/11/18. Gun owners are arguing in court that they can’t comply with California’s assault weapon registration due to computer...
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Trump administration cites success in migrant-family reunification effort,...
Photo Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre/For The Washington Post as reported on 7/28/18. By Thursday, July 26, when a court-ordered deadline loomed for the Trump administration to reunite hundreds of migrant...
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General Michael Hayden Talks Trade, National Security and Intelligence
NPR is one of several news outlets covering the new book by Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA. Photo credit: Julia Reinhart/Getty Images as reported by NPR on 4/30/18. An Interview...
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Judicial seats go unfilled, creating pressure on district courts
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas, Nevada A judicial seat in Reno, Nev., has been declared a “judicial emergency,” part of a trend of lower district court seats going unfilled, the...
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West Virginia Supreme Court justices impeached over spending
West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis announced her resignation on 8/14/18. Photo credit: CRAIG HUDSON/CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL/ASSOCIATED PRESS, as reported in The Wall Street Journal,...
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‘Dreamers’ could see fate resolved by Supremes
Photo Credit: Julián Aguilar/The Texas Tribune as reported in The Texas Tribune on 7/31/18. The future of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, will become clearer as federal courts...
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L.A. jury awards $417 million in Johnson & Johnson talc powder case
Photo credit: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press as reported by The New York Times on 7/12/18. Johnson & Johnson has sustained another major judicial loss in its defense of its talcum powder product. On...
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Court rejects Department of Defense policy banning transgenders in military
In this March 27, 2018, file photo, plaintiffs Cathrine Schmid, second left, and Conner Callahan, second right, listen with supporters during a news conference in front of a federal courthouse...
View ArticleSame-sex partner wins legal standing after girl’s death
A same-sex partner won legal standing to sue for legal distress despite the lack of a state-recognized relationship. “A woman whose same-sex partner’s biological daughter was killed in a traffic...
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American Bar Association jumps into immigrant-family fray
ABA President Hilarie Bass posted a short video asking America’s lawyers to help reunite immigrant families at the border reported the ABA Journal earlier this summer. The American Bar Association...
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Courts Monitor Publisher Believes Kavanaugh Accuser
Sara Corcoran is correspondent, contributing editor, and founding publisher of the National Courts Monitor & California Courts Monitor. Based in part on the fact they attended the same Washington,...
View ArticleIowa high court raises due process concerns over traffic cams
The Iowa Supreme Court has raised concerns about the way cities administer traffic cams, noting that tickets represent municipal fines which require court proceedings, not simply administrative action....
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California shields public sector unions from Supreme Court ruling
Photo credit: Jacquelyn Martin Associated Press file photo, 2016, as reported by the Fresno Bee. California has found itself in a legal standoff against the federal government and Trump administration...
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’Fake dates’ from ICE plague immigration courts
Photo credit: Dianne Solis/Staff of The Dallas Morning News as reported on 9/16/18: “Raymundo Olmedo, a former Load Trail factory worker, stands outside the Dallas federal courthouse after he reported...
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