(Subscription required) Legislation that the Judicial Council said will make it tougher to expand the use of electronic recording in California's courtrooms was quietly sidelined Tuesday. AB 882, sponsored by a powerful labor union representing court-employed reporters, was pulled from the Senate Judiciary Committee agenda just days before a legislative deadline.

(Subscription required) The ruling marks the latest setback for state efforts to regulate the tech industry, even as lawmakers press forward with new measures targeting AI and social media.

(Subscription required) The Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. CASA not only strips federal courts of the vital power to issue nationwide injunctions against unlawful presidential actions, but does so by clinging to a narrow, historically misguided view of 18th-century English law.

(Subscription required) Key education program grants, amounting to more than $6 billion, were frozen after the U.S. Department of Education announced they would be under review to determine if the allocated funds aligned with the "President's priorities." According to the lawsuits, on June 30, the day before funds were meant to be distributed, the states received an e-mail from the Department of Education stating funding for six programs was under review, and the grants would not be given to the states on July 1.