(Subscription required) A federal judge in California on Tuesday issued a nationwide ban on Trump administration policies that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents cited in arresting immigrants going to and from hearings at immigration courthouses. U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts of California’s Northern District also vacated a policy that extended the time immigration authorities can hold detainees in temporary lockups from 12 hours to 72 hours.

California officials may not enforce key provisions of a law protecting transgender students from forced outing against the parents challenging it while their lawsuit proceeds, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

(Subscription required) Justice Joan K. Irion believed courts belonged not only to judges and lawyers, but to the public they served. Over more than two decades on the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division One, Irion became known as a rigorous appellate jurist, a probing questioner and one of California's most active advocates for civic education, judicial independence, and access to justice. 

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal held Thursday that a judge did not err in ordering Uber Technologies Inc. to hand over documents, pursuant to an administrative subpoena duces tecum issued by a state agency tasked with workplace safety, relating to a driver who purportedly fell down a flight of stairs during a delivery, leading to his death several days later.