A DOJ memo sparks outrage over unpaid defense work • Athletes challenge the NCAA’s $2.8B NIL deal • Investors sue Clippers owner Steve Ballmer • Judge clears social media addiction cases for trial.

GOP sues to block California’s Prop. 50 redistricting map • Senate confirms Eric C. Tung to 9th Circuit • SF judge weighs ordering private lawyers for indigent clients • Apple-Masimo patent trial opens • UC Irvine Law launches tech & justice center.

The CA Supreme Court questions unreadable arbitration clauses, prosecutors face AI citation scrutiny, CRLA sues over bird flu data, Apple & Masimo battle in court, and LBBK expands statewide.

A court strikes down Huntington Beach’s voter ID law • Judge limits California’s Clean Truck Partnership • SF prosecutors, public defenders clash over staffing crisis

9th Circuit restores $25.7M EchoSpan verdict • Newsom names 3 new judges • Pasadena sues UCLA over Rose Bowl • Teamsters defend CA labor laws • $38M Bayer deal approved • LAFLA gala raises $1.25M for legal aid

Edison doubles payouts in Eaton Fire settlement • Judge fines Alston & Bird $10K over juror LinkedIn search • 12 states challenge HP–Juniper merger • Judge Kuhl lets social media firms keep key defenses

Judge Lawrence Riff advances $4B LA County sex abuse settlements • SF judge weighs forcing bar to aid public defense amid lawyer shortage • Santa Ana pays $550K in clinic zoning suit • LA Judge Ronald Kaye heads to Spain on rare sabbatical

Bonta clears OpenAI deal • Kennedy recalls meeting Putin • Diocese insurers clash

Trustees sue to recover $3.1M from Girardi scheme, Seyfarth team joins PwC spinoff, ExxonMobil challenges CA climate laws, Coinbase seeks venue change, Villanueva loses $1.7M fee bid

UC forced to release DOJ settlement proposal, State Supreme Court rejects reduced sanctions for attorneys, Judge pushes AI in social media addiction MDL, LA Courts partner with Stanford & UCLA for reforms

Record $34 million verdict in Amphastar crash • L.A. fights judge’s homeless monitor order • 9th Circuit split over Trump’s Guard deployments • Green groups sue over whale deaths • Authors take Apple to court over AI training

Newsom names 12 new judges • Possible pay freeze for California judiciary • SF court to release defendants amid defender shortage • VW wins OC lemon law case • Parris Law lands $77M verdict.

SF court to release jailed defendants without lawyers • Judge orders 41 firms to probe Uber case leak • L.A. battery project overturned • MGA appeals punitive damages ruling • $6M CSU harassment verdict • Trinity Co. judge censured

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram’s Adam Mosseri & Snap’s Evan Spiegel ordered to testify in social media addiction trials • Jury sides with Disney in Rockmond Dunbar vaccine suit • 9th Circuit revives inmate’s excessive-force case

California federal courts enter Phase 2 of the shutdown • L.A. County reaches $828M abuse settlement • New AI laws ripple nationwide • Salesforce faces AI copyright suit • Judge certifies Altria-Juul class case.

On this episode of The Daily Journal Brief we cover the NLRB's lawsuit to block California's labor enforcement trigger law, a federal defense attorney's motion to dismiss an indictment over unpaid Criminal Justice Act funding, an appellate ruling that homeless tent dwellers have no Fourth Amendment privacy rights, and a court upholding the renaming of Hastings College of the Law.

Judge blocks Trump administration layoffs during shutdown • Immigrant groups sue over new ICE policy • L.A. judge trims filings in 2020 protest case • Tax challenge faces skepticism in Sacramento • Much Shelist expands in L.A. with Fenton Jurkowitz merger

Gov. Newsom signs AB 250 reopening old sexual assault suits • Judge questions legality of Acting U.S. Attorney Bilal Essayli • Faculty union sues CSU over data release • Tesla whistleblower loses arbitration bid • Santa Ana CEQA ruling.

Newsom signs bills tightening rules on legal funding & lawyer ads • 9th Circuit keeps aid for migrant children’s lawyers • Judge blasts X’s “stunning” fees in Don Lemon case • Ex-prosecutor calls L.A. DOJ resignations unprecedented • Judges honored

Judge partly overrules demurrer in Mithril–O’Neill fight; Palisades Fire suit expands to 12 defendants; Newsom weighs successor to Justice Jenkins; SB 79 greenlights transit-area apartments; CJA crisis strains L.A. courts.