Last month, the California Supreme Court rebuked a local sheriff’s unprecedented seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots cast in the state’s November 2025 special election. The sheriff’s seizure of ballots came amid other efforts this year by federal law enforcement to seize or obtain election records in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan, raising concerns about a similar incident occurring during the upcoming midterms when a seizure could be even more disruptive. 

California’s newest laws could change how your utility spends your money, whether an employer can rely on AI to fire you and what your children encounter on social media.

The US Supreme Court is hearing a series of important cases during its new term that begins on Monday involving issues such as President Donald Trump's immigration policies, assault-style rifle bans, Big Oil's financial liability for climate change, Republican-backed voting restrictions, LGBT rights and more.

(Subscription required) As the U.S. Supreme Court opens its 2026-27 term Monday, the justices are again turning their attention to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with six appeals from the circuit already on the merits docket. The cases span a wide range of issues, from an Employee Retirement Income Security Act dispute involving Intel Corp. to Apple Inc.'s challenge to a contempt finding by Northern District of California Chief Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in its long-running fight with Epic Games Inc.