As fall falls and we hit the middle of the semester, take a break from your studies with some unintentionally California-centric legal news and miscellany:
- Under new sentencing guidelines, 6,000 federal prisoners will be released at the beginning of November (The Atlantic)
- California governor Jerry Brown signed right-to-die legislation (NPR)
- The 9th Circuit ruled that yoga poses cannot be copyrighted (WSJ Law Blog)
- Jay Z wants to delay trial in the case of the sample he used in “Big Pimpin'”, a case that is somehow still going on (Vulture)