(Subscription required) Two recent appellate decisions reveal how judges are using generative AI to resolve disputes, raising critical questions about whether such AI-generated output is even admissible under the rules of evidence.

(Subscription required) A little-noticed provision in the House's "One Big Beautiful Bill" threatens to strip federal courts of their contempt power for enforcing injunctions unless plaintiffs post security, marking an unprecedented erosion of judicial authority and a potential shield for the Trump Administration against legal accountability.

(Subscription required) Los Angeles County probate courts launch a program on June 16 allowing attorneys to monitor multiple remote hearings via a centralized online broadcast feature, improving efficiency and reducing scheduling conflicts.

A recent California law raises the standard for when prosecutors can charge accomplices to killings with felony murder. A case testing that law recently reached the state supreme court.