(Subscription required) Starting next year, California attorneys will be required to disclose when they use generative artificial intelligence to create documents submitted to a court, under legislation signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week. SB 574 will also bar arbitrators from delegating any part of their decision-making to a generative-AI tool, a restriction aimed at an emerging field in alternative dispute resolution.

Div. One of the First District Court of Appeal held yesterday that Kern County District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer lacks authority to appeal a resentencing order entered in Alameda Superior Court that resulted in the early release of a convicted killer where the local prosecutor in that jurisdiction and the Attorney General each declined to challenge the decision.

(Subscription required) An Oakland federal judge approved Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery over objections from advocacy groups, cementing a deal with 12 state attorneys general that requires no studio or cable-network divestitures.

The US Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear a dispute over a policy by President Donald Trump's administration that subjects millions of immigrants who entered the United States illegally to mandatory detention during their ​deportation proceedings.