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.

On Monday morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinion in People v. Barrett, an automatic direct appeal from an April 2004 judgment of death. This will be the last of two opinions for the cases argued in March.

The Court of Appeal for this district has rejected the contention of a wife that she had a First Amendment prerogative to express her indignation to a younger woman with whom, she had learned, her husband had engaged in an affair three years earlier and that, even if her language was crude, a civil harassment restraining order was improperly imposed on her.