(Subscription required) A state appellate panel has upheld $6,000 in sanctions against a Southern California law firm’s attorneys for submitting a brief marred by generative artificial intelligence mistakes in what a trial judge called “the worst example of misconduct by a lawyer that I think I’ve ever seen since I’ve been on the bench.”

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall ‌exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative."

(Subscription required) The California Supreme Court declined to review a Court of Appeal ruling largely upholding a massive judgment in a two-decade battle over an alleged oral real estate partnership among the Jogani brothers.

(Subscription required) Dear spent almost his entire career at California’s high court, helping shape justices’ decisions on the state’s biggest legal issues, from the death penalty to gay marriage to how workers should be classified.