A federal appeals court revived parts of a groundbreaking California law Thursday that limits online businesses’ collection and use of information from users under 18, rejecting a judge’s ruling that the entire law would improperly interfere with companies’ use of the internet and violate their freedom of speech.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a District Court judge erred in granting summary judgment in favor of an Orange County elementary school principal in an action accusing the school of forcing a first grader to sit out recess after she handed a Black classmate a drawing with the words “Black Lives Mater any life” following a reading of a story about Martin Luther King Jr.

Since 2024, more than two dozen nonprofits that recruit, train and support foster parents have shuttered across 13 counties, according to the California Department of Social Services. 

Exigent circumstances justified the warrantless entry by members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department SWAT team into an apartment—after a 15-hour standoff—to apprehend a man who, earlier, fatally shot a Pomona police officer who was holding a ballistics shield while others used a battering ram, Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal declared yesterday.