(Subscription required) Judges, lawyers and treatment officials from across California are gathering in Los Angeles this week for the 2026 Veterans Treatment Court Symposium, a three-day conference focused on improving coordination, trauma-informed practices and rehabilitation programs for justice-involved veterans.

(Subscription required) Plaintiffs behind a closely watched lawsuit challenging San Francisco's handling of homelessness, drug use and public-health policies in the Tenderloin have dismissed the case with prejudice after a federal judge ruled they lacked standing to pursue injunctive relief against the city.

The resentencing request stems from changes in California law over the past several years. Senate Bill 1437, which took effect Jan. 1, 2019, created a pathway for people convicted of murder to seek resentencing, but did not initially apply to attempted murder cases.

A decision could change product liability law ​if it effectively required drugmakers to spend more to develop and ​quickly commercialize alternative products, sometimes called a "duty to innovate." The case ⁠was brought by about 24,000 HIV patients who took Gilead drugs made with ​tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, or TDF.