(Subscription required) Over the past year, judges have issued everything from sharply worded rebukes and monetary sanctions to referrals for professional discipline as they try to rein in attorneys whose briefs contain AI‑generated hallucinations, or fabricated or inaccurate case citations produced by AI systems. As courts continue to navigate one of the legal profession’s mounting technological and ethical rifts, the use and amount of monetary sanctions also seem to be increasing.

A federal judge rules that the Border Patrol again broke the rules in California immigration sweeps, saying agents acted “without considering or complying with law Congress enacted.”

(Subscription required) From San Diego to Kern County, courts are holding outreach events to build a pipeline as vacancies fluctuate and retirements climb.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge went overboard in crafting a stay-away order to an abusive husband by including broad protections for the couple’s three teenage sons without ascertaining their wishes, the Court of Appeal for this district has held, also saying that the two family dogs and three chickens should not have been shielded from prospective harm absent any evidence of mistreatment of them by the respondent.