The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed an order compelling disclosure, under the Freedom of Information Act, by the U.S. Department of Labor of more than 16,000 reports filed by federal contractors between 2016 and 2020 relating to demographic information of their workforces, finding that the documents do not qualify under a statutory exemption for “commercial information.”

A California state appeals court panel on Wednesday reaffirmed its earlier decision against an El Dorado County resident, ruling that a $23,000 county-issued fee he incurred while building a house on his property did not violate his constitutional rights.

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that negligence in failing to recognize an officer’s status as a member of the police force is sufficient to support a conviction for resisting arrest, drawing a separate opinion by Justice John Shepard Wiley Jr. who argued that the statute’s requisite “willful” mental state is best interpreted as requiring a higher, reckless state of mind.

Div. Four of the First District Court of Appeal has declared that a writ petition filed in Sacramento Superior Court by a manufacturer of commercial electric vehicles, contesting a government agency’s action in suspending it from a program under which purchases of its products were partially subsidized by the state, does not bar issuance of administrative subpoenas in connection with the controversy in a later-filed San Francisco proceeding.