(Subscription required) The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled the Legislature lawfully renamed Hastings College of the Law and eliminated a hereditary board seat, rejecting claims by descendants that the move violated the U.S. and California Constitutions.

(Subscription required) The NLRB sued to block California's AB 288, a "trigger law" empowering a state agency to enforce federal labor rights when the board cannot or will not act. Experts say the measure faces likely NLRA preemption, setting up a test of federal incapacity.

California Supreme Court Justices Kelli Evans and Goodwin H. Liu have voiced disagreement with the court’s denial of a petition for review in a case in which it was asserted that a Santa Clara Superior Court judge violated the Racial Justice Act of 2020 by calling a criminal defendant “a strong young buck” during a sentencing hearing, arguing that the high court should have taken the case “in light of the importance of” the rights at issue.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that evidence of past lies to immigration authorities can support an adverse credibility finding as to a claim of persecution even if the deception is unrelated to the petitioner’s testimony outlining why he is seeking relief from removal.