• Threat-Maker’s Dad Properly Restrained From Having Guns

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    February 18, 2026

    Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has affirmed a restraining order that requires the live-in father of a man who threatened to shoot up a school to turn in, and refrain for possessing, any guns for a period of three years, finding no error in the trial judge’s conclusion that a requirement that the restrained person must be found to pose a “danger of causing…injury” may be met where a party did not adequately prevent access to firearms in the home.

  • Judicial Profile: Los Angeles County Judge Michael Wilson

    Daily Journal
    February 17, 2026

    (Subscription required) From ancient Greek texts to complex civil dockets, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael B. Wilson approaches the law like translation- carefully, structurally, and with an eye toward fairness. 

  • California builds AI oversight unit and presses on xAI investigation

    Reuters
    February 17, 2026

    California Attorney General Rob Bonta is building an artificial intelligence accountability program as his office probes Elon Musk’s xAI over the generation of non-consensual sexually explicit images, he told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

  • San Diego jury awards $2.3M in disability bias case against property manager

    Daily Journal
    February 17, 2026

    (Subscription required) A San Diego County jury found that Fairgrove Property Management violated California's Fair Employment and Housing Act by firing an employee after a disabling back injury, awarding $2.335 million in damages, including $1.3 million in punitive damages.