The wooden or metal rods wielded by police are “arms” that cannot be withheld from law-abiding citizens, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego said Thursday in a ruling barring state enforcement of the law. He said the California law, passed in 1923, violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, as recently redefined by the Supreme Court.

(Subscription required) “The agreed price in a bundled transaction consists of the initial payment and the subsequent monthly payments,” California Third District Court of Appeal Justice Shama Hakim Mesiwala wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel. The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration “has the power to allocate a portion of these payments to the cell phone and the remainder to services and levy sales tax accordingly."

As California’s precipitation becomes more erratic due to climate change, the state needs more tools, including more storage capacity, to make the water supply reliable.

The law library, second in size only to the Library of Congress in the United States, is stocked with legal information primarily focused on California, although you can find materials there from all 50 states and more than 250 foreign countries.