A public hospital district’s restriction prohibiting hosting abortion clinics at the group’s medical center violates the fundamental right of procreative choice enshrined in the California Constitution and is unenforceable because the choice to abort is a protected characteristic under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the Fifth District Court of Appeal has declared.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to stop his investigation into ballots from the November special election that his office seized following accusations of voter fraud.

The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned the double-murder conviction and death sentence of Omar Richard Deen, ruling that a juror with deep personal and professional ties to one of the victims should never have been allowed to serve on the case.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a motion to compel arbitration filed by a car manufacturer, in a certified class action asserting violations of California’s lemon law, was properly denied where the defendant was not a party to the dealership contract containing the agreement to arbitrate, with the panel declining to find that a “delegation clause” providing that an arbitrator is to decide questions of validity forecloses the result.