• C.A. Says Cal/OSHA Is Entitled to Subpoena Uber Over Driver’s Death During Delivery

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    June 22, 2026

    Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal held Thursday that a judge did not err in ordering Uber Technologies Inc. to hand over documents, pursuant to an administrative subpoena duces tecum issued by a state agency tasked with workplace safety, relating to a driver who purportedly fell down a flight of stairs during a delivery, leading to his death several days later.

  • Alien Registration Requirement Doesn’t Violate Jay Treaty

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    June 22, 2026

    The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has answered in the negative the question of whether the Nov. 19, 1794 “Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America”—commonly referred to as the Jay Treaty—is violated by requiring that Indigenous Americans born in Canada obtain an alien registration number as a requisite to purchasing a firearm in the U.S.

  • [U.S.] Supreme Court reinstates murder conviction in case of Etan Patz, missing New York City boy

    Associated Press
    June 22, 2026

    The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged them to undo a federal appeals court decision that overturned the verdict. The three liberal justices dissented.

    Related: Reuters, Bloomberg Law

  • California law that forbids ‘forced outing’ of trans students blocked by 9th Circuit

    Los Angeles Times
    June 22, 2026

    The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement of a California law that seeks to prevent school employees from notifying parents about a student’s gender expression without their consent. The U.S. Supreme Court previously upheld a temporary block on the law after it was challenged, sending the case back to the appellate court.