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.

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.

(Subscription required) A group of Apache women has filed an emergency request to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to stop the development of a Native religious site for a large new copper mine, calling it a last chance to "prevent this generational tragedy."

After studying a nationally recognized program in Nashville, Tennessee, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus and his department are finalizing plans for a new program at the Glen Helen Rehabilitation Center that will connect inmates afflicted with mental health and substance use disorders to essential services and housing after they are released.