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Latest News in California
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March 30, 2026
Newsom Tightens AI Contract Rules Over Safety Fears
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered state agencies to strengthen guardrails for all contracts connected to generative AI tools, highlighting what he sees as risks to free speech, voting rights and mass surveillance, and at the same time encouraging statewide adoption of safe forms of the technology.
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March 30, 2026
HPE Seeks Fix After States Expose Confidential Bidding Info
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. urged a California federal judge to order a dozen states and Washington, D.C., to take corrective measures after they publicly filed thousands of pages of confidential documents related to the company's planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc.
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March 30, 2026
Law Firm Blew Fraud Suit Against Ex-Partners, Pot Co. Says
A law firm overbilled, underworked and generally dropped the ball in a fraud suit brought by a cannabis cultivator and manufacturer against ex-business partners, the company told a California state court, saying it's seeking at least $500,000 from the firm.
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March 30, 2026
Feds Urge 9th Circ. To Pause Immigration Bond Ruling
The Trump administration Monday urged the Ninth Circuit to pause a lower court's declaration that immigration judges have the authority to hear detained immigrants' bond requests, slamming the ruling as a "frontal assault" on the government's authority to detain immigrants and arguing it's creating "judicial chaos" across the country.
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March 30, 2026
Trump, Biden Changes To Endangered Species Regs Vacated
A California federal judge on Monday threw out Endangered Species Act regulation changes from the first Trump administration and Biden administration for being unlawful, saying the regulations contradicted the animal and habitat conservation law, including by paring back federal agency duties and narrowing the scope of the law's protection.
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