The latest addition to the Sacramento skyline may also be its most anticipated: a gleaming 18-story courthouse with 53 courtrooms and 540,000 square feet of real estate to replace an aging downtown courthouse long regarded as undersized, unsafe, overcrowded and obsolete.

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from implementing sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood immunization schedule, siding with major medical organizations that argue Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unlawfully altered vaccine policy and improperly reconstituted a federal vaccine advisory panel.

Starting next month, each of California’s 286,000 attorneys will have to swear each year to “strive to conduct myself at all times with dignity, courtesy and integrity” or risk losing their license to practice law. Unless, that is, the oath is found to unduly restrict freedom of speech, an argument that may find some support in the state Supreme Court, which would have the last word.

(Subscription required) A group of Apache women has filed an emergency request to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to stop the development of a Native religious site for a large new copper mine, calling it a last chance to "prevent this generational tragedy."