Petitions for habeas relief, filed by two men convicted of a turf-war shooting who assert that their constitutional rights were violated because one of the jurors purposefully left out that she worked for a gang unit within the Los Angeles Police Department, were properly denied because findings that the omission was not prejudicial were not unreasonable, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held.

California’s requirement of obtaining a license to carry a concealed firearm does not violate the 2022 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court invalidating a New York statute conditioning gun-toting on possession of such a permit because that state’s law mandated a showing of “proper cause” for an application to be approved, Div. Four of the First District Court of Appeal decided yesterday.

(Subscription required) The Protecting Our Kids From Social Media Addiction Act, signed into law last year, limits children's access without parent approval to so-called addictive feeds presented to them based on an algorithmic analysis of their user data. It also bans site notifications at night and during school hours, and it requires children's accounts to be set on a default "private" mode that limits access to their posts.

California was admitted as the 31st state of the Union 175 years ago today on September 9, 1850. The matter was fraught with tensions of the day, with debates raging here and in Congress over the state’s boundaries, whether it should be one state or two, and of course the slavery question.