Starting next month, juveniles in Mendocino County who receive an infraction like a speeding ticket will have their case handled in court rather than by the county's Probation Department.

(Subscription required) U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer has accused California of using racial considerations to draw a new map handing Democrats additional safe congressional seats, which was adopted in response to a similar effort by Texas Republicans.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial judge erred in denying a street vendor’s request for a preliminary injunction in a case seeking to enjoin enforcement of a San Diego ordinance scheme precluding sidewalk sellers from, among other things, operating in the area around the city-owned Petco Park stadium for the hours before and after Padres games and other popular events.

(Subscription required) A unanimous Second District Court of Appeal panel found in a published opinion that residents of a Southern California apartment complex can bring claims against their landlord for violations of the state’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act for failing to provide required information about screen applications they completed as prospective renters.