(Subscription required) California has enacted first-in-the-nation legislation to regulate attorneys’ use of generative artificial intelligence tools in their work, banning them from delegating the practice of law to AI and restricting their entry of confidential or personal information into AI tools.

(Subscription required) AB 1776 gives state prosecutors new authority to pursue anticompetitive conduct by dominant companies, widening California's divergence from federal antitrust law despite significant concessions to business groups.

(Subscription required) An en banc panel considering photographer Jeffrey Sedlik's copyright case against tattoo artist Kat Von D questioned whether the circuit's longstanding "intrinsic" test is too subjective to permit meaningful appellate review.

The Third District Court of Appeal has rejected the view that causes of action asserted against the state under a Vehicle Code section that imposes liability for the negligent driving of public employees are immune from the Government Claims Act’s requirement that a party wishing to sue a governmental body must submit a written claim to that agency before seeking redress in court.