Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation on Saturday that will penalize social media influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content posted on the internet. Now, California campaign finance regulators are empowered to impose fines on influencers of up to $5,000 for each violation or to refer those violations to law enforcement as potential misdemeanors.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Saturday that bans other states from deploying National Guard troops to California without permission, in response to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented use of military troops against U.S. citizens during his second term. 

(Subscription required) Appellate attorneys say Justice Jon B. Streeter's 49-page concurrence carries no precedential weight but could influence lawmakers considering whether to revisit the Racial Justice Act after People v. Hazlett.

A federal appeals court in Denver on Friday proposed requiring lawyers to certify that any court filings prepared with the assistance of generative AI have been reviewed by humans for accuracy. If adopted, the 10th US ​Circuit Court of Appeals would become the first of the 13 federal appeals courts nationally to ‌have a rule targeting the mountain of instances of fake and hallucinated case citations that have shown up in court filings since AI debuted on a mass scale in 2022.