Allen Easley, dean of the University of La Verne College of the Law, resigned unexpectedly Monday, citing personal reasons. The shakeup came eight months after the school lost provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association because of concern over its bar passage rates.

Constantine Peter Kallas, who was assistant chief counsel for the U.S.

President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to vote on long-stalled nominees for the federal judiciary — an issue that has appeared relatively low among his priorities. He said that some nominees have been waiting as long as eight months to be confirmed and that some legislators “have used parliamentary procedures time and again to deny them a vote in the full Senate.” Obama has rarely pushed the judicial nominee issue in public, but Tuesday’s remarks signal a possible shift.