The Third District Court of Appeal has held that Kaiser Foundation Hospitals failed to establish the existence of an agreement to arbitrate a dispute over the group’s provision of so-called “gender affirming care” to influencer Chloe Cole, who has since rejected her transgender identity and claimed that the procedures—performed while she was in her early teens—have caused her “deep” wounds,” allowing the high profile case to continue in court.

Div. Three of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a robber, who pled guilty to first-degree murder relating to the death of a purported co-conspirator a few months after the California Supreme Court announced that a defendant accused of a provocative act killing must personally harbor malice, is precluded from seeking resentencing based on assertions that he might have been convicted without a showing of the requisite intent.

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The court of appeals said 21 of 23 quotes in an opening brief were fake. State authorities are scrambling to grapple with widespread use of artificial intelligence.