The Supreme Court on Monday morning added seven new cases, covering issues ranging from campaign-finance regulations to the flexibility of the deadline to move a case from state to federal court, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The list of orders released from the justices’ private conference on Thursday, June 26, was one of the final opportunities for the justices to bulk up next term’s docket before their summer recess.

President Donald Trump escalated his war against sanctuary policies on Monday in a lawsuit blaming alleged “rioting, looting and vandalism” in Los Angeles on the city’s refusal to allow its police to enforce immigration law or cooperate with federal agents. The suit comes two months after a judge barred Trump’s administration from denying federal funds to sanctuary cities, and five years after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s challenge to California’s sanctuary law.

(Subscription required) Sacramento judges upheld Attorney General Bonta's right to hire outside counsel, while attorneys working for the state secured a one-year delay on Gov. Gavin Newsom's return-to-office order.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held Friday that a party who has become aware that an opponent’s attorney has been involuntarily placed on inactive status due to disciplinary proceedings is obligated to give notice to the other side, critiquing the opposing lawyers, the State Bar, and the trial court to for failing to inform the affected client before rulings were made to her detriment.