(Subscription required) The parent company of Snapchat has settled two lawsuits on the eve of a Los Angeles trial alleging the social media platform caused two teens to become addicted, leading to their mental health problems.

A judge ruled Monday that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office will not be removed from the prosecution of Tatiana Turner, a social justice activist from Long Beach accused of purposely driving into a crowd of counter-protesters during a violent and chaotic confrontation at a 2020 demonstration in Yorba Linda.

(Subscription required) The State Bar is urging a judge to reject attorney Paul R. Kiesel's bid to subpoena more than a decade of records from the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, the Department of Water and Power, and law firms involved in the DWP billing scandal, arguing that the discovery would be excessive and largely duplicative.

(Subscription required) A Los Angeles judge postponed the first Eaton Fire bellwether trial by six weeks but rejected Southern California Edison's request for a nearly five-month delay, finding that the utility had failed to justify additional months of discovery.