A California appellate justice and a doctor who uses social media to empower medical learners will be the first guest speakers as the University of California, Davis, begins its graduation season this week.

(Subscription required) A Superior Court judge has refused to force a multibillion-dollar credit union merger between California Coast Credit Union and San Diego County Credit Union, finding the plaintiff failed to show a likelihood of success and that federal regulators had not approved the deal.

Div. Three of the First District Court of Appeal held Friday that a trial judge erred in finding that a Texas-based radiologist, who contracted with a San Diego-based company to analyze imaging studies generated in multiple states at his Houston-area home, is on the hook for California taxes as a “a sole proprietorship which carries on a unitary business…within and without the state” under §17951-4(c) of Title 18 of the Code of Regulations.

The State Bar has released its annual report for the last fiscal year, highlighting the distribution of historically high legal aid funding, sourced primarily from interest on attorney trust accounts and public grants, while acknowledging continuing operational budget strains in part linked to the problem-riddled February 2025 exam.