The question the California Supreme Court agreed to hear was: is a religious employer excused from wage claims brought by its minister-employees simply because it is a religious employer or, instead, are such claims only limited to the extent the religious employer can demonstrate in a particular case that the minister’s claims implicate the entity’s internal government closely linked to religious doctrine?

A recent statewide technology summit convened hundreds of court professionals from around the state to talk about cybersecurity and how using artificial intelligence (AI) data can improve efficiency and benefit court users.

(Subscription required) A proposed DOJ rule would pause state bar investigations of federal lawyers while the department reviews complaints first, reviving a decades-old fight over ethics enforcement, federal power and accountability questions.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a District Court judge erred in finding that a clause in an arbitration agreement giving authority to “a court or other body of competent jurisdiction” to sever any unconscionable provisions undermines the otherwise clear intent to delegate the right to determine the question of the contract’s validity to an arbitrator.