After decades of rulings by federal judges rejecting partisan gerrymandering — designing election districts that, while equal in population, favored one political party over another — the nation’s high court ruled in 2019 that federal courts had no constitutional authority to decide whether newly drawn district boundaries were unfairly partisan.

(Subscription required) Can fairness justify judicial departure from People v. Allen, the California Supreme Court will examine whether deceptive but noncoercive police conduct warrants remedy.

(Subscription required) The ruling revived a lawsuit by a man rear-ended by an ambulance. The justices drew a sharp line between professional medical duties owed to patients and the broader duty of care owed to the public.   

(Subscription required) A jury verdict in a landmark data privacy case found that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act by illegally siphoning sensitive sexual and reproductive health data from a fertility tracking app, Flo Health. The verdict came a day after Flo Health, originally a co-defendant, announced that it had reached a settlement with plaintiffs.