“When it comes to a student’s change in gender identity, California state policymakers apparently do not trust parents to do the right thing for their child,” U.S.

(Subscription required) Once a flowing river through Bakersfield, the Kern now runs dry for most of the year. A case now before the California Supreme Court asks whether state law requires it to flow again--and what that answer could mean for water users statewide. 

(Subscription required) Judges in California and Washington last week rejected class certification in lawsuits against Zendesk Inc. and Snap Inc., citing flaws in expert evidence and a lack of commonality under pay equity and pay transparency laws. 

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal yesterday vacated a judgment pursuant to a jury verdict for nearly $14 million in a personal injury lawsuit arising out of a low-speed traffic collision, holding that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge erred in allowing testimony from a surgeon who was only disclosed to the defense seven court days before trial without any showing of good cause for the delay in seeking to designate a new expert.