The guidance to agencies tries to strike a balance between managing the risks of artificial intelligence and also encouraging innovation. It also requires that each agency appoint a chief artificial intelligence officer, a senior role that will oversee implementation of AI.

The California Supreme Court held yesterday that a power of attorney authorizing a man to make health care decisions for his uncle, in his seventies, did not grant authority to sign an optional agreement requiring that any dispute the principal had with a skilled nursing facility to which he was admitted be resolved through arbitration.

(Subscription required) The president of the Bar Association of San Francisco said Thursday that recent death threats made against retired assigned Judge Kay Tsenin are "our worst fears realized" as fall-out continues from her decision to allow mental health treatment rather than prison for a man with a long criminal history who pleaded guilty to stabbing a 94-year-old Asian American woman in June 2021.

(Subscription required) The immigration attorney who helped Riverside County Superior Court Judge Marie E. Wood and her family remain in the United States is also the one who offered the first opportunity to get into the legal field.