(Subscription required) The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in May on the scope of injunctive relief, with major implications for presidential authority and judicial reach. The Trump administration appears to be trying to avoid a direct challenge, for now, to the long-standing birthright citizenship precedent set by Wong Kim Ark.

(Subscription required) The state bar's committee of bar examiners will ask the California Supreme Court to offer statistical scoring help to those who took the technically troubled February 2025 bar exam.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday that the Sixth Amendment rights of a criminal defendant—who spoke a rare language requiring a remote translator—were not violated by the fact that his only conversation with his attorney occurred in the courtroom in the presence of law enforcement officers, finding no structural violation and the absence of prejudicial deliberate indifference.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Minnesota asking to revive the state’s ban on gun-carry permits for young adults. The justices also left in place a ban on guns at the University of Michigan, declining to hear an appeal from a man who argued he has a right to be armed on campus. No justice noted a dissent in either case.