(Subscription required) Plaintiffs' attorneys are increasingly sidestepping arbitration by filing so-called "headless" PAGA cases that omit individual claims -- a strategy that has produced a sharp split among California's appellate courts. Now the state Supreme Court has stepped in on its own motion to resolve whether workers may pursue non-individual PAGA claims without filing on their own behalf.

Research has shown that many young adults aging out of the [foster care] system can easily lose, or struggle to find, stable housing. While there are nonprofits able to help, leaders of those groups say cooperation has sometimes been lacking. As result, staffers representing 40-plus organizations have been meeting for more than a year about how to work together seamlessly.

(Subscription required) A group of prominent law professors has asked the state high court to probe a Nevada County prosecutor's alleged use of AI-generated citations, saying such errors pose grave risks to defendants and the integrity of judicial decisions.

(Subscription required) Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday named six new judges to fill vacancies in six trial courts around the state. The governor’s picks continue a common practice during his tenure of choosing court commissioners for elevation to judgeships.