(Subscription required) As Congress stalls on artificial intelligence regulation, California's sweeping AI legislation is setting a national benchmark. States from New York to Texas are borrowing key principles -- and testing their own limits -- as they craft new rules for the fast-moving technology.

The Trump administration is defending a federal gun control law dating to 1968 and challenging the rulings of two conservative appeals courts that struck down the ban on gun possession by any “unlawful user” of illegal drugs, including marijuana.

In the three-judge panel decision, the court said the city violated California’s Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, because it did not adequately inform the public about the environmental impacts of removing the height limit. The city, the opinion states, abused its power in putting the matter before voters without the proper analysis.

(Subscription required) The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled the Legislature lawfully renamed Hastings College of the Law and eliminated a hereditary board seat, rejecting claims by descendants that the move violated the U.S. and California Constitutions.