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The Supreme Court has a wait-and-see approach for attorney discipline. Some ethics folks think its too lenient, and arguably inconsistent with the text of the court's Rule 8. From a story I wrote in No. '24. www.law.com/nationallawj...
I don't know if state bars will go along with this....
JUST IN: Judge Mehta threatens contempt and bar sanctions for attorney Carolyn Stewart — who has repped numerous Jan. 6 defendants and pardon recipients — over filing a motion with “fabricated” citations to local rules and refusing to correct it.
CA Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin Jenkins, Gov. Gavin Newsom's first pick for California's high court announces he will retire at the end of the month.
BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.
California’s AG has joined Oregon and the city of Portland in asking for a TRO to block the president from moving National Guard troops in Los Angeles to Portland after the judge barred Oregon troops free m being sent to Portland. oag.ca.gov/system/files...
After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now.
We are taking this fight back to court.
CA AG Rob Bonta calls SCOTUS' stay in the ICE racial profiling case "disturbing." Notes the court banned used of race in college admissions but now says "you can use race as a factor to discriminate, potentially against Angelenos and Californians based on race." www.law.com/nationallawj...
NEW: Supreme Court allows ICE in LA area to continue stopping folks based on ethnicity, accent, and job.
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job," Sotomayor dissents.
The CA Supreme Court has denied, again, Republicans' petition to stop Democrats' congressional redistricting plan. At this point, Prop 50 is heading to the November ballot.
No immediate TRO, but Judge Charles Breyer has set a hearing for Thursday on CA's request to block the Trump administration from using the National Guard and Marines from performing law enforcement duties in L.A.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked NDCal Judge Breyer for an immediate TRO "that prevents federal troops from enforcing the laws" in LA. "... A TRO is necessary by 1:00 p.m. on June 10, 2025, to prevent immediate and irreparable harm to Plaintiffs." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Updated to add Meazure Learning's response to the CA state bar's lawsuit: "This lawsuit is an attempt by the State Bar to shift the blame for its flawed development process for the February exam." www.law.com/therecorder/...
California State Bar announces, not surprisingly, that it has sued the company that administered the botched February bar exam, Meazure Learning. www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/do...
The new top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles is allowing a former sheriff’s deputy convicted by a jury of a felony civil rights violation against a Black woman to instead plead guilty to a misdemeanor and return to policing.
Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Breaking news: Embattled California State Bar executive director Leah Wilson said she will not seek reappointment when her contract ends this summer.
California's state bar asked ChatGPT to write some bar exam questions. We asked ChatGPT if those resulting questions might infringe another test-writer's copyright. www.law.com/therecorder/...
Dem AGs call out firms who "capitulated" to the Trump administration, say the "public deserves to know the terms of the agreements these law firms have reached" to avoid the president's executive orders. oag.ca.gov/system/files...
Those who took the February 2025 bar exam already endured a messy run-up to the test and an epic tech meltdown on the test itself. Now they may have to wait even longer to find out if they passed. www.law.com/therecorder/...
