• Landlords get day in CA Supreme Court over LA eviction threshold

    The Real Deal
    September 9, 2026

    The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles’ appeal regarding its lawsuit challenging the eviction threshold of the City of Los Angeles.

  • Woman’s Allegations Posted on YouTube Are Unprotected

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    September 9, 2026

    The Sixth District Court of Appeal has held that while an anti-SLAPP motion was properly granted in connection with allegations a woman made about her brother in an action to have a domestic violence retaining order imposed on him, videos posted on YouTube, accessible by the public, containing those accusations are not protected speech.

  • California, other states warn [U.S.] Supreme Court of ‘chaos’ if it lets USPS mail ballot rules stand

    Los Angeles Times
    September 9, 2026

    The contested rules require states to rapidly overhaul mail voting with new voter lists and bar-coded envelopes. The Supreme Court is expected to rule relatively quickly, given the emergency nature of the appeal.

    Related: SCOTUSblog

  • San Francisco’s DA wants to change the California constitution

    Mission Local
    September 8, 2026

    The San Francisco district attorney’s office is looking to change California’s constitution, after a recent state Supreme Court decision, In re Kowalczyk, made it harder for the office to hold people charged with low-level offenses in jail before trial, DA Brooke Jenkins said on Tuesday morning.