(Subscription required) The state Supreme Court's unanimous ruling that the California Coastal Commission lacked authority to block a county-approved housing permit has significant implications for the balance of power between the commission and local governments along the state's coastline, the prevailing attorneys said Friday.

A restraining order in place since early February that required Rady Children’s Health to resume all gender-affirming care, save surgeries, will remain in place through June 24 as San Diego Superior Court Judge Matthew Braner considers granting a preliminary injunction that is broader than the current status quo.

Geofencing allows the government to draw a virtual fence around a geographic area where a crime was committed. After that, the government seeks a warrant — not to search a home or office, but to require a tech company to search its data to identify any of its millions of users who were within the geofence line at the time of the crime. The question before the U.S. Supreme Court is whether geofencing is ingenious, Orwellian, or both. And, ultimately, is it constitutional?

Gov. Gavin Newsom has nominated the presiding judge of Imperial County Superior Court to be an associate justice in the San Diego-based state appellate court. Judge Eran Marie Bermudez has been on the bench in Imperial County since 2018. She is poised to become a member of the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division 1, if her nomination is approved.