Today, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in the case of California Justice Committee v. Bowen, prohibiting the California secretary of state from enforcing a January deadline by which new political parties must meet onerous qualification requirements in order to place their candidates on California’s November presidential ballot.

SAN FRANCISCO GATE: By Nanette Asimov Students say the bathrooms at Oakland High are messed up because they lack supplies, leak, or are always locked. At Far West High in the same city, students complain of classrooms so crowded that they have to sit on tables.

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Facing an FBI investigation into brutality in his jails, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca publicly committed Tuesday to shuttering much of his most problematic lockup, Men's Central Jail, barring some unexpected hike in violent crime.