(Subscription required) California's budget deal avoids major court cuts, authorizes courthouse sales, and allocates $30 million for Proposition 36, but ongoing funding disputes and housing law changes may bring up legal battles.

(Subscription required) A 9th Circuit panel struck down California's gun-rationing law, and while Attorney General Rob Bonta may seek en banc review, history, doctrine and a weak factual case may all work against him.

Six cases remain to be decided, including whether President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship can take effect anywhere in the United States.

Over eight, intensive weekly sessions, Alcantara and other Sacramento-area residents learned to put their days in prison behind them and instead embrace job interviews, college advisement and vision boards filled with dreams and second chances.