Geofence searches allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphone users near crime scenes. The justices will examine how the Constitution’s traditional protections apply to rapidly changing technology that has made it easier for the police to scoop up vast amounts of data to assemble a detailed look at a person’s movements and activities.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Monday in a case that could lead to the dismissal of tens of thousands of lawsuits against Bayer, the pharmaceutical and biotech giant, that claim the weedkiller Roundup caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Vested rights of a company that owns and manages 24 multi-family apartment buildings were not impaired when Culver City—after granting more than 100 permits for the rehabilitation of the 1974 structures and their units and after $19.7 million had been expended on the project—enacted a requirement that tenants displaced by renovations must be allowed to return later at the same lease rates, the Court of Appeal has held.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held Friday that a trial judge erred in conditioning leave to amend a complaint, to add allegations necessary to withstand a pleading challenge, on the payment of $25,000 in attorney fees to the opposing side to account for costs associated with filing a demurrer, saying the governing statute does not authorize such an order.