(Subscription required) An Orange County judge has granted Attorney General Rob Bonta and the Department of Housing and Community Development permission to weigh in on lawsuits challenging Newport Beach's updated housing plan. The state argues that local charter provisions cannot override California's housing laws.

(Subscription required) A Los Angeles judge is reviewing a lawsuit challenging LAUSD's policy on campus co-location, which charter advocates argue violates a state law requiring equal access to school facilities. While safety considerations were upheld, other elements of the policy were tentatively found to conflict with Proposition 39.

Fifth District Court of Appeal Acting Presiding Justice Jennifer R.S. Detjen yesterday expressed strong disapproval of the majority’s affirmance of an order requiring either that proceeds from the sale of a home be divided equally between the parties or that the ex-wife purchase the interest of her former husband, maintaining that title to the real property was vested solely in the woman.

Summary judgment was properly granted to the City of Los Angeles in an action for unlawful discrimination brought by a fired employee, Div. Four of the Court of Appeal for this district has held, declaring that administrative remedies were not exhausted where a complaint was filed with a state agency in purported compliance with a statutory requisite for suing but specific facts were not set forth.