(Subscription required) California's Supreme Court justices said they didn't know a bar vendor used artificial intelligence in crafting bar exam questions until they saw the revelation in a press release Monday.

The program offers an incentive to candidates by reimbursing them for their interpreting training expenses and examination fees, covering up to three exams. It also requires participants to agree to a minimum three-year employment period with the courts upon passing their exams and registering with the Judicial Council.

In New England Country Foods, the court agreed in February 2024 to answer this question for the Ninth Circuit, “Is a contractual clause that substantially limits damages for an intentional wrong but does not entirely exempt a party from liability for all possible damages valid under California Civil Code Section 1668?”

San Francisco Sheriff’s officers can conduct warrantless searches of criminal defendants who have been released while awaiting trial, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a judge’s decision that the search orders exceed the sheriff’s authority and violate the right to privacy.