Cheryl Miller
@cheryl-miller.bsky.social
Sacramento-based reporter for Law.com, covering California's judiciary and the politics and policies that affect it and that it affects.
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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.
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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.
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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.
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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.
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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...
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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.
We are taking this fight back to court.
October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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.
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...
Supreme Court Allows ICE Sweeps in Los Angeles to Continue | Law.com
"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," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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...
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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.
"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.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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.
"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.
August 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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.
June 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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...
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June 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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 Sues Testing Vendor Over Botched February Exam
As the state bar accused Meazure Learning of overpromising its ability to administer the lawyer-licensing exam, a bar committee Monday endorsed provisionally licensing those who failed the February test.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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...
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May 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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...
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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.
New U.S. attorney in LA moves to strike jury's felony civil rights verdict against cop
Four prosecutors assigned to the case withdrew hours after their new boss finalized a rare "post-trial plea agreement" that calls for a misdemeanor conviction and no prison.
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May 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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.
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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...
May 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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.
May 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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/...
State Bar Defends AI Use on Bar Exam, Asks Calif. Supreme Court to Lower Passing Score
In a late-night filing with the state's high court on Tuesday, the California bar did not explain why its test-writing vendor did not submit all 200 questions on the February bar exam or why it turned to AI to develop others.
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April 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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...
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April 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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...