(Subscription required) Meta Platforms Inc. has reached a confidential settlement with an 18-year-old Mississippi plaintiff in the second social media addiction bellwether trial in Los Angeles, leaving Snap Inc. as the sole remaining defendant in the consolidated trial involving two young women.

At least four elections workers in California have received federal criminal grand jury subpoenas over the past week, with at least one delivered on Thursday after the court’s order. In that subpoena, issued to the Orange County Registrar of Voters’s office, federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security are seeking unredacted voter records for 60 people, according to records obtained by CalMatters. 

(Subscription required) Former California Supreme Court Justice Martin J. Jenkins and retired appellate Justice Arthur Gilbert discussed judicial independence, legal interpretation and the importance of consensus at the California Supreme Court Historical Society's annual dinner.

(Subscription required) The attorney general's office has charged former Lassen County Superior Court executive Teresa Stalter with charging personal expenses to the court.