Last month, the Supreme Court granted review on its own motion in Leeper v. Shipt, Inc. The same day, however, the superior court dismissed the case at the plaintiff’s request. That might cause the Supreme Court to in turn dismiss the review nobody asked for.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing his demands for stricter immigration enforcement, and his opposition to abortion and transgender rights, on local governments as a condition of receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in federal homeless-assistance funds.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday held that the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for a preliminary injunction, seeking to block Microsoft Corporation’s acquisition of gaming developer Activision Blizzard Inc., was properly denied because the agency had failed to establish that it was likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the move would substantially interfere with competition in the relevant video gaming markets.

Under the terms of SB 963, signed last year by Gov.