(Subscription required) Los Angeles Superior Court announced a 2025-2028 strategic plan to enhance access, reallocate resources using data, modernize services, and improve public trust through tech upgrades and user-focused innovations.

(Subscription required) Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs qualified as fair use. Both decisions carry potentially seismic importance for AI companies and intellectual property litigators.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has affirmed an order hiking monthly spousal support that are due from a Newport Beach attorney to his ex-wife, a non-practicing active member of the State Bar, from $19,000—the amount recited in a 2017 handwritten stipulation, converted into a 2018 judgment—to $52,000.

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal held Friday that a trial judge improperly dismissed an action filed by a former division chief at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department who alleges that she was discriminated against on the basis of race and suffered retaliation at the hands of then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva after she pursued an investigation into a purported excessive force incident that she likened to the George Floyd scandal.