• Farm group's challenge to union card check law transferred to Fresno federal court

    Daily Journal
    May 18, 2025

    (Subscription required) Filed by the Western Growers Association and Fallbrook-based Olive Hill Greenhouses, the suit claims the 2022 law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom violates federal labor law and constitutional protections. The Attorney General's Office argues the challenge is not ripe, as no collective bargaining agreement has been finalized.

  • Oral arguments, no conference, this week

    At the Lectern
    May 18, 2025

    Opinions in the cases should file by August 18. However, in one death penalty appeal (People v. Cardenas), some supplemental briefing won’t be completed until after the argument, which could delay submission of the case and, therefore, possibly also the filing of the opinion.

  • Trump, religious rights and transgender care: Supreme Court's major decisions coming soon

    USA Today
    May 18, 2025

    Trump, religious rights and transgender care: Supreme Court's major decisions coming soon  

  • LPSD Publisher Wins Lawsuit Over Police Drone Videos

    LaPrensa.org
    May 17, 2025

    A San Diego Superior Court Judge today issued a final ruling in a four-year-old case that now requires police departments to release some videos captured by their police drones, a first-in-the-nation legal ruling that sets a new precedent for public access to law enforcement records.