• Good-Faith Exception to Warrant Necessity Applied to Search of Cellphone—C.A.

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    March 17, 2026

    Suppression of the fruits of a warrantless search of cellphone was not required where the device had belonged to a man who had been slain and police officers believed that the decedent’s mother now owned the instrument and that her consent sufficed, the Sixth District Court of Appeal has held.

  • Inside Sacramento’s new $514 million high-rise courthouse set to open in weeks

    Sacramento Bee
    March 17, 2026

    The latest addition to the Sacramento skyline may also be its most anticipated: a gleaming 18-story courthouse with 53 courtrooms and 540,000 square feet of real estate to replace an aging downtown courthouse long regarded as undersized, unsafe, overcrowded and obsolete.

  • Judge halts RFK Jr.’s vaccine overhaul, citing flawed process

    The Washington Post
    March 16, 2026

    A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from implementing sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood immunization schedule, siding with major medical organizations that argue Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unlawfully altered vaccine policy and improperly reconstituted a federal vaccine advisory panel.

    Related: Associated Press

  • California lawyers must soon take a yearly civility oath, prompting free speech concerns

    San Francisco Chronicle
    March 16, 2026

    Starting next month, each of California’s 286,000 attorneys will have to swear each year to “strive to conduct myself at all times with dignity, courtesy and integrity” or risk losing their license to practice law. Unless, that is, the oath is found to unduly restrict freedom of speech, an argument that may find some support in the state Supreme Court, which would have the last word.