The poll, released by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, found that concerns cut across the partisan spectrum. They are shared regardless of income or education level, race or ethnicity. Californians living in big cities and rural countrysides, young and old, expressed similar unease.

The California Supreme Court ruled against The North River Insurance Company in a $100,000 bond forfeiture case, holding that courts can’t force prosecutors to make extradition decisions—or wait around while they do. The opinion draws a firm line: if a bail bond insurer wants relief, it needs to act early and secure the prosecution’s agreement. Without it, time runs out. 

The California Supreme Court declined to hear a petition from the California Coastal Commission (CCC) seeking to ban off-highway vehicles (OHVs) at Oceano Dunes.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the conviction of a Silicon Valley executive—who paid a team of marketers to pitch to “naïve” doctors a bundled blood test for allergies and COVID-19 offered by his company—under a 2018 law banning the payment of “renumeration…to induce a referral of an individual to a…laboratory.”