A lawsuit Monday by legislative Republicans contended the hastily drafted ballot measure, scheduled for votes in both houses Thursday, has not been published long enough to meet the public notice requirements in the state Constitution. But the court dismissed the suit Wednesday in a brief order with little explanation.

(Subscription required) A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel expressed uncertainty Tuesday over whether it could issue a stay blocking an order by a San Francisco judge postponing a Trump administration official's revocation of the temporary protected status of 60,000 people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday held that credit earned by federal inmates by taking job training and other courses, under a 2018 law aimed at incentivizing prisoners to complete programs aimed at reducing the risk of recidivism, may be applied not only to reduce the term of imprisonment but also to cut the period of supervision following release.

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