A civil litigant, hit with $200,000 sanctions for plotting the kidnapping and murder of the defendant, gets the sanctions reversed.

Next week the California Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether the state can mandate long-term care facility employees to use residents’ preferred pronouns. If this is consistent with the First Amendment, could conservative states mandate hospitals refer to fetuses as “unborn children”?

The State Bar used AI to create bar exam questions.

An attorney used a cartoon dragon watermark in his federal filing.

And Jeff reports some tips from the recent San Francisco CLA/OCBA appellate conference.

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