• Judge extends order requiring Rady Children’s to continue gender-affirming care

    The San Diego Union-Tribune
    April 27, 2026

    A restraining order in place since early February that required Rady Children’s Health to resume all gender-affirming care, save surgeries, will remain in place through June 24 as San Diego Superior Court Judge Matthew Braner considers granting a preliminary injunction that is broader than the current status quo.

  • The [U.S.] Supreme Court case that could redefine your digital privacy

    KVPR
    April 26, 2026

    Geofencing allows the government to draw a virtual fence around a geographic area where a crime was committed. After that, the government seeks a warrant — not to search a home or office, but to require a tech company to search its data to identify any of its millions of users who were within the geofence line at the time of the crime. The question before the U.S. Supreme Court is whether geofencing is ingenious, Orwellian, or both. And, ultimately, is it constitutional?

  • Imperial County presiding judge tapped for San Diego-based appeals court

    The San Diego Union-Tribune
    April 26, 2026

    Gov. Gavin Newsom has nominated the presiding judge of Imperial County Superior Court to be an associate justice in the San Diego-based state appellate court. Judge Eran Marie Bermudez has been on the bench in Imperial County since 2018. She is poised to become a member of the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division 1, if her nomination is approved.

  • California Courts Could Soon Begin Tracking ICE Arrests at Their Facilities

    KQED
    April 24, 2026

    The proposal by the Judicial Council of California comes in response to an unprecedented rise in detentions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at superior courts across California’s judicial system, the nation’s largest. Attorneys, judges and public safety advocates have criticized the practice.