AB715, which takes effect next year, creates new Office of Civil Rights, and within it an antisemitism prevention coordinator to review discrimination complaints and recommend corrective actions. Its authority will include allegations by students, parents or school officials that a teacher has unfairly criticized Israel’s government.

(Subscription required) The latest signings reflect lawmakers' ongoing frustration with the state bar and Democrats' willingness to enact more consumer-friendly legislation over business groups' opposition.

Local students will have the chance to question California Supreme Court members about the state’s judicial system before Wednesday’s special session of the court in Monterey, the first time the court has met in the city in more than 45 years. The special session will be held at Colton Hall Museum – the location of California’s first constitutional convention in 1849.

Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal yesterday held that a trial judge may overrule an objection asserting that the prosecutor has exercised a peremptory challenge based on a presumptively invalid, racially motivated reason without making explicit findings referencing the governing statutory language, disapproving a 2024 opinion by the same division that reached the opposite conclusion.