From drafting memos for a tribal court judge to helping people fight evictions and stay in their homes, four UC Law SF students spent the summer providing free legal assistance to Indigenous and rural communities in Northern California.

(Subscription required) California’s law banning the sale, purchase and possession of large capacity gun magazines survived Tuesday after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel granted an emergency stay of a district judge’s ruling that the statute is unconstitutional.

The MyCitations program — part of a statewide rollout — was implemented to help the court quickly work through more than 175,000 citations it adjudicates in an average year, while also saving defendants time and money, according to Michael Roddy, executive officer for the San Diego Superior Court.

Gov. Gavin Newsom gained widespread attention Saturday for signing a first-in-the-nation law to require corporations doing business in California to add up how many tons of greenhouse gases they emit each year, and make the information public. But with less fanfare, Newsom also signed more than a dozen other significant environmental bills over the weekend.