(Subscription required) Arbitration agreements with nursing facilities don't apply to wrongful-death claims if survivors assert institutional neglect, and not medical malpractice, led to a loved one's demise, the California Supreme Court held Thursday.

The grants are among more than $324 million in federal research funds to UCLA that the Trump administration froze on Aug. 1. UCLA became the latest elite school to be punished under President Donald Trump’s policy of withholding billions of federal research dollars from universities and demanding cultural concessions and student and staff data to recover the funding.

These amendments are effective immediately and formalize and clarify the court's e-filing guidelines, which the court adopted at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The three commutations won’t require any prisoner releases, at least not right away. Rather, the Governor said he is “contemplating” those clemency grants will lead to “eligib[ility] for an earlier parole suitability hearing” or, in Fitts’s case, eligibility simply for a parole suitability hearing that would not otherwise be available at all.