(Subscription required) The appellate court found county supervisors had a reasonable basis to declare an emergency and place the five-year sales tax on a 2025 special-election ballot, but a separate constitutional challenge to the tax remains pending. 

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that the Los Angeles Unified School District violated a California labor law by excluding two job applicants from employment based on background checks that revealed now-expunged misdemeanor convictions, rejecting the view that the defendant is entitled to filter out candidates with any criminal history in light of its general obligation to protect the children entrusted to its care.

(Subscription required) California lemon law filings fell 31% in the first half of 2026 after reaching a record high last year, as attorneys cite early settlements, procedural reforms and shifts among high-volume plaintiffs' firms.

(Subscription required) The proposal would allow trained community justice workers to provide limited legal services under the supervision of approved legal aid organizations, an effort to narrow California's persistent access-to-justice gap.