(Subscription required) California's state bar has settled its lawsuit with the vendor the agency accused of mishandling the rollout and administration of the botched February 2025 bar exam, the bar announced Monday. Alabama-based Meazure Learning will pay $5.25 million to resolve claims that it oversold its ability to deliver a largely remote lawyer-licensing exam to thousands of applicants and will waive $1.36 million in outstanding invoices submitted for work on the February 2025 test.

The Supreme Court is asking for millions of dollars from Congress to draft plans for a new facility to screen visitors outside the court’s home on Capitol Hill, as security threats against the justices mount. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are scheduled to make a rare appearance at the Capitol to testify about the court’s more than $200 million request.

Div. Four of the First District Court of Appeal held Friday that a contract provision providing that the prevailing party in any litigation under the agreement is authorized to recover attorney fees covers any expenses attributable to paralegal services, highlighting that a contrary reading would incentivize higher billings and operate in contradiction to the term’s demand that the payout be “reasonable.”

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a San Diego federal judge’s prior ruling that the Trump administration cannot require money services businesses to report all transactions of $200 or more, a rule the government said was aimed at combatting money laundering but that a San Diego small-business owner argued would financially ruin her company and others like it.