Div. Three of the First District Court of Appeal has held that sovereign immunity exempts the Regents of the University of California from compliance with local building and zoning requirements as to a plan to build a new San Francisco hospital because one of the motivations for the project is the governmental purpose of promoting education for medical students.

A coalition of environmental groups appealed a court rejection of their challenge to California’s plan to build Sites Reservoir in a valley north of Sacramento, its first new major reservoir in decades. They argue the project would harm Sacramento River ecosystems and threaten imperiled fish species.

This AI cohort includes 11 experts from top tech companies, startups, and organizations around the country. Meeting the government-wide needs specific to AI, they will begin a yearlong tour of duty in civil service, embedded at eight federal agencies. Projects will include maximizing AI’s potential to increase access to justice while minimizing risk of consumer harm, and harnessing data and AI to enhance the electric grid infrastructure to enable the provision of clean, affordable, reliable, resilient, and secure electric power to all Americans.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed workers in California to join one another and sue their employer for allegedly violating state labor law, two years after the high court seemingly closed the door on such lawsuits.