• US judge orders halt to Trump administration's 'censorship' of park exhibits

    Reuters
    June 12, 2026

    A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall ‌exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative."

  • Supreme Court closes door on 23-year Jogani litigation

    Daily Journal
    June 11, 2026

    (Subscription required) The California Supreme Court declined to review a Court of Appeal ruling largely upholding a massive judgment in a two-decade battle over an alleged oral real estate partnership among the Jogani brothers.

  • Jake Dear, Chief Supervising Attorney Under Three California Chief Justices, Dead at 69

    The Recorder
    June 11, 2026

    (Subscription required) Dear spent almost his entire career at California’s high court, helping shape justices’ decisions on the state’s biggest legal issues, from the death penalty to gay marriage to how workers should be classified.

    Related: California Courts Newsroom

  • Survival Clause Insufficient to Disinherit Grandchildren

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    June 11, 2026

    Div. Seven of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a survival clause in a woman’s revocable living trust naming her three children as beneficiaries, but providing that a child who did not survive her by more than 30 days would be deemed “for all purposes” to have died before her, was insufficient to overcome California’s anti-lapse statute and cut-off inheritance by the children of a son who predeceased her.