(Subscription required) Federal Judge Jon Tigar consolidated three class actions against Meazure Learning for a faulty California Bar Exam platform, appointing interim lead counsel to address test-takers' disrupted exams and potential career delays.

(Subscription required) The California Supreme Court in Escamilla v. Vannucci clarified that the one-year statute of limitations under Code of Civil Procedure § 340.6 applies only to claims by clients or intended beneficiaries against attorneys, while claims by non-clients--such as third-party malicious prosecution actions--are governed by the statute of limitations for the underlying cause of action.

(Subscription required) A 9th Circuit panel reversed a district judge who said two local instructors could be banned from teaching in San Diego city parks.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a man charged with distributing fentanyl-laced pills that killed a Palos Verdes-area teenager, finding the trial judge erred in excluding evidence that another purported dealer, who contacted the minor before his death, had previously sold counterfeit pills containing that same substance and had in his contacts the names of 50 people who allegedly died from overdoses.