(Subscription required) The state Supreme Court has agreed to review a 2nd District Court of Appeal ruling that upheld a 30% cut to plaintiff's attorney fees. The justices' decision could clarify whether trial judges must provide detailed explanations for across-the-board reductions or continue to exercise broad discretion.

(Subscription required) How are copyright holders to prove their works were used to train AI models if the details about the vast data sets used for such training are kept secret? That’s a dilemma that surfaced last week when a federal judge dismissed a claim of direct infringement raised by a group of authors.

Republican legislators returned to the state Supreme Court on Monday to try to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan from the November ballot, saying the abrupt redrawing of boundaries to increase Democratic representation violates the public’s right to fair and independent election maps.