(Subscription required) X Corp. has challenged Assembly Bill 587, which as of Jan. 1 would require social media companies with annual gross revenues of at least $100 million to publicly disclose information about their content-moderation policies and decisions.

(Subscription required) The plaintiffs, who are represented by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP and sole practitioner Matthew Butterick in Los Angeles, accused the defendants of creating or using an AI program that was trained using their artwork in order to mimic their styles.

The justices heard an appeal from two San Diego-area school board members who were sued for violating the free-speech rights of a parent. The board members had blocked the parent, Christopher Garnier, from their Facebook and Twitter accounts, saying he had posted dozens of repetitive comments to their personal Twitter and Facebook accounts.

(Subscription required) The race and ethnicity of attorneys disciplined by California’s state bar in the most recent fiscal year largely matched the race and ethnicity of California’s legal community, according to a report the bar released Monday. Men of all backgrounds, however, were far more likely than women to be disbarred, suspended, placed on probation or reproved, the report covering the period between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, also showed.