The nation’s 250th anniversary will come with a civics lesson for some San Mateo County students. San Mateo County Superior Court is inviting local educators to schedule visits that will bring judges, attorneys, and other law enforcement leaders into classrooms across the county as part of a statewide civic education initiative.

California lawmakers want safeguards against fraudulent deepfakes, but it remains unclear whether a federal proposal would cover Steve Hilton’s disclosed campaign video.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has imposed a $5,000 sanction on a lawyer who sought a writ aimed at postponing a trial based on a supposed conflict with the starting date of another proceeding without telling the justices that problem had been remedied.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has scored two victories in the Third District Court of Appeal, with the justices holding, as they have in the past, that ballot proposition descriptions need only be non-misleading, not precise.