As the Supreme Court prepares to decide what the government can do in terms of advising Facebook, Google and other social media platforms about concerns over content, California and other states urged the justices Tuesday to allow them to continue communicating with the companies.

Under SB 43, the expanded definition of grave disability would also consider whether a person faces a substantial risk of serious harm by failing to provide for their own medical care or personal safety. It would include not just mental illness, but also severe substance use disorder and chronic alcoholism.

(Subscription required) Newsom asked the U.S. Supreme Court, dominated by Republican appointees, to reverse a July decision by the 9th Circuit that banned anti-camping ordinances because they violated the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment for “engaging in activity they cannot avoid.”

(Subscription required) The California Civil Rights Department said Ralphs is the target of the first lawsuit under a 2018 law, the Fair Chance Act, which prohibits employers from asking job applicants if they have committed crimes.