(Subscription required) Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act doesn't give Meta immunity from a lawsuit brought by several state attorneys general over the company's alleged role in social media addiction, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday, as the social media giant prepares for trial in Oakland.

(Subscription required) California’s privacy agency hit data broker LocateSmarter LLC with a $116,490 penalty for making it difficult for online users to opt out of the sale of their personal information. Tuesday’s fine marks the agency’s first action for violations of both the state’s privacy and data broker laws: the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Delete Act. 

(Subscription required) Retired Justice Marsha G. Slough, whose two decades on the California bench took her from working directly with troubled teenagers in San Bernardino County to helping lead the state judiciary through the COVID-19 pandemic, died Saturday following an illness. She was 68.

California cities can’t require taxpayers to navigate extra local procedures before seeking a tax refund in court, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a long-running lawsuit involving Marathon Petroleum, which operates the state’s largest refinery. The decision gives Marathon a procedural victory in its tax battle with the City of Carson, which in 2022 told Marathon subsidiary Tesoro that it owed additional taxes under the city’s oil-industry business license tax.