(Subscription required) The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had reached a $400 million settlement with TikTok on Friday, resolving two-year claims that the short-form video app giant and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, breached federal children's privacy laws. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act bars operators of websites and online services from collecting the personal information of minors under the age of 13 without obtaining parental consent.

(Subscription required) The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday dismissed California's challenge to a federal ghost-gun rule, holding the state and Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence lacked standing to attack a federal agency provision they said leaves a loophole for assembling untraceable weapons at home.

The Court of Appeal for this district has held that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge did not abuse his discretion in striking the answer of a defendant who, over a two-year period, failed to provide meaningful answers to Form Interrogatory 15.1 seeking identification of facts and witnesses supporting his position, with the justices declaring that, under the circumstances, lesser sanctions need not have been tried first.

The court found that the judge in the trial of Dwayne Robinson incorrectly overturned the defense’s objection to the prosecutor rejecting a Black juror without a legally valid reason under section 231.7 of the state’s Code of Civil Procedure, which prohibits the use of peremptory challenge against a juror because of their race, ethnicity, gender or other identities, according to the ruling filed June 12 by California’s First Appellate District.