A federal judge says the Trump administration acted illegally when it ordered San Francisco public schools and the city of Santa Fe, N.M., to stop promoting racial and gender diversity in their AmeriCorps volunteer programs or they would lose their federal funding.

The testing company that delivered California’s disastrous February bar exam asked a judge on Friday to throw out the bulk of The State Bar of California’s lawsuit against it, claiming that the state bar cannot rely on the company's early statements about its online testing capacity to demonstrate fraud.

On May 27, 2025, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District held that a former employee retains standing to bring California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims against an employer more than a year after separation, even though PAGA’s statute of limitations for civil penalties is one year.

The justices in a 7-2 ruling overturned a lower court's decision to throw out the lawsuit by a Valero Energy (VLO.N) subsidiary and fuel industry groups. The lower court had concluded that the plaintiffs lacked the required legal standing to challenge a 2022 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision to let California set its own regulations.