(Subscription required) Kristin Rosi alleges she was fired after challenging the California Department of Insurance's handling of rate cases and resisting improper interference in her judicial duties. Her lawsuit also alleges discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation.

(Subscription required) As California court interpreters stage walkouts over wages and staffing shortages, the judiciary is exploring technology that could ease the burden. But experts warn that artificial intelligence remains unreliable for courtroom interpretation, raising questions about how courts will meet their language access obligations.

The federal government has sued the City of Glendale in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that the municipality is committing an affront to the Second Amendment by charging “shockingly high fees” to apply for a concealed weapons permit.

As the California Supreme Court considers Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unprecedented effort to commute all 548 death sentences in California to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, UC Berkeley law professor Jonathan Simon argues that the court’s role should be narrowly limited to determining whether the governor has abused his constitutional authority.