• Lawsuit Over Response to First Grader’s Drawing Is Revived

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    March 11, 2026

    The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a District Court judge erred in granting summary judgment in favor of an Orange County elementary school principal in an action accusing the school of forcing a first grader to sit out recess after she handed a Black classmate a drawing with the words “Black Lives Mater any life” following a reading of a story about Martin Luther King Jr.

  • California’s foster care system is buckling under the weight of this unexpected cost

    CalMatters
    March 11, 2026

    Since 2024, more than two dozen nonprofits that recruit, train and support foster parents have shuttered across 13 counties, according to the California Department of Social Services. 

  • Warrantless Search Following 15-Hour Standoff Was Valid

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    March 11, 2026

    Exigent circumstances justified the warrantless entry by members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department SWAT team into an apartment—after a 15-hour standoff—to apprehend a man who, earlier, fatally shot a Pomona police officer who was holding a ballistics shield while others used a battering ram, Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal declared yesterday.

  • 9th Circuit to review immigration docket's management after Trump appointees object

    Reuters
    March 11, 2026

    The chief judge of the largest U.S. federal appeals court said it will reexamine how it manages the court's "enormous" immigration docket after several judges on the court appointed by President Donald Trump "disrupted" its policymaking process ​with a ruling declaring its practice of pausing deportations unlawful.