(Subscription required) A restaurant and a patron agreed to settle for $475,000. Then an imposter, posing as the plaintiff's counsel, started sending emails with payment instructions.

In the case, the Fifth District Court of Appeal, in a published opinion, validated California’s lawsuit against a bakery for violating the State’s Unruh Civil Rights Act. The alleged violation was a bakery’s refusal to sell a predesigned cake because it was intended for use at the customers’ same-sex wedding reception.

A California appellate court has ordered the Temecula Valley School Board to stop enforcing its ban on Critical Race Theory while a lawsuit works its way through the courts. The suit, filed by a group of teachers, students and teachers’ unions (Mae M. v. Komrosky), alleges that the 2022 ban on critical race theory has impacted student’s’ rights, censored teachers and created a hostile environment.

Amid rising tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary, some federal judges are beginning to discuss the idea of managing their own armed security force. The notion came up in a series of closed-door meetings in early March, when a group of roughly 50 judges met in Washington for a semiannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, a policymaking body for the federal judiciary.