Jake Dear, who served as chief supervising attorney of the California Supreme Court under three Chief Justices as part of his 40-year career at the court, died Friday, June 5 after a short illness. Dear, who was also widely known as a leading scholar regarding the court’s history and influence, was 69.

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department initially filed lawsuits seeking the records from hospitals nationwide, but nearly a dozen federal judges rejected their suits. In response, attorney Shannon Minter of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights said, the department then quietly opened criminal investigations and threatened to prosecute hospitals that did not release their records by this Wednesday.

Farid, a UC Berkeley computer science professor who recently departed to teach at Dartmouth, is best known for his work as a deepfake detective, analyzing videos and images for traces of manipulation by digital or AI tools. Over the past year, deepfake content has grown at a rate of roughly 900%, according to the cybersecurity firm Deepstrike, driven by the rise of generative AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, ElevenLabs and Google’s Veo 3.

Div. One of the First District Court of Appeal has held that although a marital settlement agreement provided that the wife would be awarded the marital home and would be responsible for “all debts thereon,” there was no implied obligation that the husband’s name be removed from the mortgage.