Shalini Thakur, 38, was shot and killed at about 3 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of a Panera Bread store on Howe Avenue, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Thakur had reported being stalked by Rohit Rohit, 22, since January and had taken out a restraining order against him in May, authorities said. On July 29, she contacted deputies to report Rohit had violated the order after he dropped off groceries at her door.

Div. Two of this district’s Court of Appeal has upheld an order granting a special motion to strike a complaint filed by the 25-time Grammy-Award winning rapper Shawn Carter—who performs under the name “Jay-Z”—that accuses a Texas law firm of attempting to extort the artist.

The Court of Appeal for this district has reversed an order denying an anti-SLAPP motion in an action by a man who was producer/creator/writer of children’s television programs who claims to have been falsely portrayed, by implication, as a sexual child abuser in a five-part documentary, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” aired in 2024 on Warner Brothers’ Investigation Discovery cable network and streamed on HBO Max.

On Aug. 10, the court held that when an indigent litigant requests an official record and establishes an inability to pay for a private reporter, the trial court must provide one — and if a live stenographer is unavailable, an electronic recording is required.