🏛️ Legislature passes $356B budget · 59–18 Assembly · 28–9 Senate · June 15 🌊 Sable Offshore v. Coastal Comm. · pipeline repairs blocked · June 17 🚗 Cal/OSHA v. Uber · admin exhaustion required · June 18 🏠 LivCor pays $7M · algorithmic rent alignment · June 18 ⚖️ P. v. Brim · BART murder conviction reversed · June 17 💼 Taduran v. Glidewell · PAGA penalty cut to $517K · June 17 🧬 P. v. Konther · genetic genealogy upheld · June 12 🎲 Bonta joins 37 AGs · Kalshi gambling challenge · June 12 🏛️ Legislature passes $356B budget · 59–18 Assembly · 28–9 Senate · June 15 🌊 Sable Offshore v. Coastal Comm. · pipeline repairs blocked · June 17 🚗 Cal/OSHA v. Uber · admin exhaustion required · June 18 🏠 LivCor pays $7M · algorithmic rent alignment · June 18 ⚖️ P. v. Brim · BART murder conviction reversed · June 17 💼 Taduran v. Glidewell · PAGA penalty cut to $517K · June 17 🧬 P. v. Konther · genetic genealogy upheld · June 12 🎲 Bonta joins 37 AGs · Kalshi gambling challenge · June 12

Sunday Edition · Post-deadline · Week of June 15–21, 2026

Enrolled

One week after leaders announced their agreement, the Legislature passed a $356 billion spending plan late Monday — meeting the constitutional June 15 deadline by wide margins and sending the legislative version of the Budget Act to Governor Newsom as the real negotiations begin toward a July 1 fiscal year.

Senate 28–9 · Assembly 59–18 · SB 101 / AB 109

California lawmakers pass budget with billions more for education — EdSource, June 15, 2026
JUN 15 Deadline met

Follow-up · constitutional deadline

Legislature enrolls budget — Newsom negotiations now begin in earnest

The vote was constitutionally required: lawmakers must pass a balanced budget by June 15 or forfeit their salaries under Cal. Const. art. IV §12. Monday night's passage largely rejects or delays billions in social service cuts Governor Newsom proposed in his May Revision, while projecting roughly $5 billion more in revenue than the administration forecast — a gap that will define the next two weeks of closed-door talks before the July 1 fiscal year.

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California Democrats postpone deep cuts in budget deal — CalMatters, June 15, 2026

Environmental law · Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Six

Sable Offshore Corp. v. California Coastal Commission

No. B347601 · published June 17, 2026 · appeal from Santa Barbara County Superior Court

Division Six affirmed a preliminary injunction enforcing the Coastal Commission's cease-and-desist order against Sable Offshore, blocking repair operations on the Las Flores Pipelines at 121 identified anomaly sites without Coastal Development Permits. The court rejected Sable's argument that jurisdiction rested with the county under its certified local coastal program rather than the Commission — reinforcing state enforcement reach over coastal-zone development even where local programs handle front-line permitting.

The ruling arrives as the Commission separately notified Sable of its intent to issue additional cease-and-desist orders over crude oil extraction in the Santa Barbara Channel, alleging the company reactivated its Gaviota pipeline in March without proper coastal development permits.

Sable Offshore Corp. v. Cal. Coastal Com., No. B347601 (Cal. Ct. App. June 17, 2026) — Judicial Branch of California
Cal/OSHA B340734 June 18, 2026

Gig economy · workplace safety

Div. of Occupational Saf. & Health v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

The Second District held that Uber cannot bypass the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board by filing a parallel declaratory relief action in superior court challenging Cal/OSHA's jurisdiction. After the agency cited Uber in August 2022 for injury-prevention, recordkeeping, and COVID-19 program violations, Uber argued its drivers are independent contractors under Business & Professions Code section 7451 (Prop 22) — but the court ruled those questions must be resolved through the administrative appeal process before any court intervention.

Div. of Occupational Saf. & Health v. Uber Technologies, Inc., No. B340734 (Cal. Ct. App. June 18, 2026) — Judicial Branch of California

Antitrust · housing

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LivCor settlement · RealPage litigation

Bonta secures LivCor settlement in algorithmic rent-alignment probe

Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a $7 million settlement with property manager LivCor, resolving allegations that the company used RealPage's revenue management software to align rental prices with competing landlords by illegally sharing confidential pricing data. LivCor must cease using software that gathers nonpublic pricing data from rivals, establish compliance monitoring, and cooperate in the ongoing prosecution of RealPage and other defendant landlords — the second state settlement in the multistate antitrust action after Greystar's $7 million resolution in November 2025.

Attorney General Bonta Announces $7 Million Settlement with LivCor — California DOJ, June 18, 2026

Criminal procedure · First District, Division Two

When the danger no longer exists — does any right of self-defense still exist, reducing the maximum charge to manslaughter?

Jury question during deliberations — People v. Brim, fatal 2019 BART train stabbing

Division Two reversed Jermaine Brim's second-degree murder conviction on June 17, holding the trial court prejudicially erred by failing to answer this jury question about the continuing scope of self-defense. Justice James Richman wrote that jurors may have erroneously believed they could not reduce the charge to voluntary manslaughter if the danger Brim initially feared had passed after he grabbed the knife. Alameda County prosecutors now have 60 days to decide whether to retry or resentence on manslaughter.

P. v. Brim, No. A170747 (Cal. Ct. App. June 17, 2026) — Judicial Branch of California
PAGA maximum sought

Taduran v. Glidewell

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Abraham Taduran sought maximum civil penalties across four Labor Code violations — wage statements, rest periods, overtime, and bonus pay — after Glidewell stipulated to liability on most claims following a 2017 Orange County Superior Court filing.

Division Three affirmed · June 17

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The Fourth District affirmed the trial court's award of less than 1% of the maximum — holding the Labor Code mandates no particular method for reducing penalties and trial courts may use per-employee, per-pay-period, or percentage-based approaches. A 0.7 negative multiplier on attorney fees was also upheld.

Taduran v. James R. Glidewell, Dental Ceramics, No. G064718 (Cal. Ct. App. June 17, 2026) — Judicial Branch of California

Criminal justice · DNA cold cases

People v. Konther — genetic genealogy survives constitutional challenge

Lake Forest assault

A 9-year-old girl is assaulted while walking home from buying school supplies. DNA is collected but produces no database matches for decades.

Investigative genetic genealogy

Orange County Sheriff's investigators use IGG techniques to identify identical twins Kevin and his brother as suspects. Covert recordings capture Kevin Konther making incriminating admissions.

Division Three affirms

The Fourth District, Division Three holds that converting crime-scene biological material into genealogical profiles for private ancestry-database searches does not violate the Fourth Amendment under the abandonment doctrine — Konther had no reasonable expectation of privacy in semen left at the scenes.

P. v. Konther, No. G063674 (Cal. Ct. App. June 12, 2026) — Judicial Branch of California

Multistate litigation · prediction markets

37 attorneys general defend state gambling authority against Kalshi

Attorney General Bonta joined a bipartisan coalition filing an amicus brief on June 12 supporting Ohio's enforcement of its sports gaming laws against prediction market operator Kalshi — arguing federal commodities law does not preempt state gambling regulation and that sports-event contracts are not "swaps" under the Commodities Exchange Act.

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Joined the Sixth Circuit amicus brief filed June 11, 2026, supporting Ohio gaming authorities after a district court denied Kalshi's preliminary injunction request.

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Ohio fine

Ohio gaming authorities fined Kalshi $5 million for illegal gambling after the district court ruled state laws remain fully enforceable against sports-event prediction contracts.

California Courts Daily

Jul 30

Oral arguments

The Sixth Circuit consolidated Ohio and Tennessee challenges with oral arguments scheduled — California's seventh multistate amicus effort targeting prediction market operators.

Amicus Brief — Sixth Circuit, filed June 11, 2026
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Search & seizure · First District, Division Four · June 12, 2026

People v. Hayes — SWAT-coerced exit treated as in-home arrest

Division Four held that when SWAT officers coerced Hayes to exit his apartment, the seizure must be treated as an in-home arrest under Payton v. New York rather than an outside-the-home arrest. However, after excising false statements from the warrant affidavit under Franks v. Delaware, the remaining facts — a reported shooting, bullet holes, photo identification, and firearms history — still established probable cause, rendering the arrest lawful and affirming denial of his motion to suppress jailhouse phone recordings.

A coerced exit from one's home under SWAT pressure constitutes an in-home seizure subject to Payton's warrant requirements — but a warrant affidavit stripped of reckless false statements may still establish probable cause from remaining facts — Solano County Superior Court, No. FCR363017.
P. v. Hayes, No. A173642 (Cal. Ct. App. June 12, 2026) — Judicial Branch of California
7240 Holsclaw Rd · Gilroy

24.5 acres · Williamson Act · construction underway

Follow-up · immigration · federal preemption

ICE denies detention plans as Bonta lawsuit proceeds

Since Attorney General Bonta and Santa Clara County filed suit June 10 to block the Gilroy ICE facility, an agency spokesperson told reporters on June 15 that ICE has "no new detention centers planned at this location" — even as county counsel's review of 111-page blueprints concluded the building could hold up to 150 detainees. The Northern District complaint alleges NEPA, Williamson Act, and Intergovernmental Cooperation Act violations over construction on agricultural land protected since the 1960s.

ICE Says it Has 'No New Detention Centers Planned' at Upcoming Gilroy Facility — The Epoch Times, June 19, 2026

The Week Ahead · June 22 – June 29, 2026

Dates to watch across California law

With the legislative budget enrolled, attention shifts to gubernatorial negotiations, Supreme Court publication days, and briefing deadlines in high-stakes federal and state proceedings — including the death-penalty racial-disparity challenge returning to Sacramento Superior Court.

New fiscal year begins

The 2026–27 fiscal year starts. If no final budget agreement is reached, continuing resolutions or special session measures may be required — though the Legislature's June 15 enrollment preserves lawmaker salaries regardless.

Assembly Bill 109 — Budget Act of 2026
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