The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that summary judgment was properly granted to law enforcement employees who failed to conduct further investigation in booking a man on charges meant for someone else, finding that the plaintiff, who had in his possession the identification card of the true suspect, bore enough physical similarities to the warrant subject as to defeat his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment claims.

(Subscription required) Santa Barbara County Judge Michael Carrozzo, accused of posing as his judicial secretary's lawyer, has agreed to retire in September, settling with the Commission on Judicial Performance and canceling a planned disciplinary hearing, his attorneys said.

Goodwin Liu is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California who previously served as a professor and associate dean at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. His academic expertise lies in constitutional and education law, and he continues to teach the former as a visiting professor in institutions across the country. Justice Liu will be the AAPSS’s 2025 Roger Wilkins Fellow. 

Media literacy – the ability to analyze, evaluate and create media content responsibly – is no longer an optional component of education but a necessity. As misinformation proliferates and social media platforms dominate communication, the need for robust media literacy education in the United States is more urgent than ever.