Fong, McCarthy’s chosen successor, was on the March 5 primary ballot for both California’s 20th Congressional District and 32nd Assembly District thanks to a messy scramble to pick a successor to the former Bakersfield congressman. That status was at the center of California Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s issue with Fong’s congressional candidacy.

(Subscription required) Consumers asked the California Supreme Court to review a lower court’s revival of a state regulation that taxes customers on the undiscounted price of cell phones bundled with service contracts.

In 2020, a unanimous Second District panel comprising Justices John Shepherd Wiley Jr., Tricia Bigelow and Elizabeth Grimes rejected the plaintiffs’ claims that the city’s at-large elections illegally diminished Latino voting power. Three years later, the California Supreme Court reversed the Second District, finding that the court of appeal had misinterpreted the state’s voting rights law.

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., upheld a decision in 2022 by the Environmental Protection Agency, under President Joe Biden, to restore California’s pollution-setting authority for cars and trucks that had been repealed by the EPA in 2019 under President Donald Trump.