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. The court will focus its visits during Constitution Month in September, with the goal of reaching at least 250 K-12 public school students by the end of 2026.

Lake Mead, located in southern Nevada and fed by the Colorado River, is the largest reservoir in the U.S. and a critical water source for Southern California. According to water officials, the lake reached a new record low last week, surpassing the previous low recorded in 2022.

(Subscription required) Anyone with an internet connection will be able to listen to the court’s live audio feed of Meta’s historic legal row, likely featuring testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, with more than two dozen state attorneys general over youth mental health. That makes the US District Court for the Northern District of California a standout among the country’s 94 federal trial courts, thanks to a local rule change that gives judges the discretion to provide live audio-only feeds of civil jury trials. Federal rules of criminal procedure prohibit criminal trial broadcasting.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a $12 million judgment against a San Diego-based lender accused of conspiring with the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute to create a student-loan program that was purportedly designed to defraud pupils and evade regulators in violation of federal law.