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In this undated file photo provided by the County of Los Angeles, incoming Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon speaks after he was sworn in a virtual ceremony in downtown Los Angeles. (Bryan Chan/County of Los Angeles via AP, File)

Court blocks some of Los Angeles DA’s progressive policies

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, customers are served lunch at an outdoor seating space in Pasadena, Calif. The nation's largest county acted &quot;arbitrarily&quot; when it banned outdoor dining at restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic, a Los Angeles judge tentatively ruled Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in a case that could have implications for other California businesses struggling during the state shutdown. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Los Angeles restaurants win court battle over closures

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

People eat lunch outdoors Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. Pasadena has become an island in the center of the nation's most populous county, where a surge of COVID-19 cases last week led to a three-week end to outdoor dining and California's first stay-home order since the pandemic began to spread across the state in March. The city has its own health department, and can set its own rules, even as Los Angeles County ordered a three-week end to outdoor dining and then a broader stay-home order that took effect Monday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Los Angeles restaurants win court battle over coronavirus closures

By Christopher Weber and Brian Melley - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015 file photo, Katy Perry poses during her handprint ceremony after the premiere of &quot;Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer&quot; at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, accepted an offer from a Los Angeles businesswoman to pay $25,000 a month in rent plus maintenance costs of a hilltop convent she wants to develop into a boutique hotel and restaurant. The property is at the center of a dispute between businesswoman Dana Hollister and Los Angeles' Catholic archbishop, who wants to sell the property to pop singer Perry. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Nuns will get rent for convent in Katy Perry dispute

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY - Associated Press