Judge:
Local Lawmakers May Override Zoning
Initiatives
(May 13, 2022)
Alarcon
Strikes Statement of Disqualification
Filed by Lawyer for Model Blac Chyna
(May 13, 2022)
Young
Adults Have Right to Purchase
Semiautomatic Rifles
(May 12, 2022)
Retired
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, 70,
Dies
(May 12, 2022)
Retired
Judges Aren’t Bound by Code of Judicial
Ethics
(May 12, 2022)
C.A.
Affirms Judgment Against Lawyer/Realtor
Who Lied
(May 11, 2022)
Confrontation
Clause Not Defied by Admitting Nurse’s
Recitation of Victim’s Statements
(May 11, 2022)
State
Bar Seeks Services of Trustee of
Girardi|Keese Estate
(May 10, 2022)
Warrant
for Home Search Justified by Events
Inconsistent With Non-Criminal Conduct
(May 10, 2022)
ADDA
Endorses 11 Deputies in Judicial Races
(May 10, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit: California’s Ban on Foie Gras
Sales Is Valid
(May 9, 2022)
Court
Has No Power to Deny Jury Trial Based On
Violation of Local Rule, C.A. Declares
(May 9, 2022)
Bank
Is Liable for Agent’s Error in Rejecting
Notice of Levy
(May 6, 2022)
Justice
Department Seeks Forfeiture of Holmby
Hills ‘Mega-Mansion’
(May 6, 2022)
Rescission
Can’t Be Based on ‘Duress by Third
Person’
(May 5, 2022)
Bride-to-Be
Who Signed Prenup Without Reading It
Can’t Avoid Consequence—C.A.
(May 5, 2022)
Lawyer’s
Recitation of Client’s Allegations Not
Privileged
(May 4, 2022)
Redevelopment
Plan’s Affordable Housing Proviso Is
Defunct
(May 3, 2022)
Byrum,
Strassner Appointed to LASC Judgeships
(May 3, 2022)
C.A.
Affirms Denial of 50-Block Ban on Drug
Dealers
(May 2, 2022)
City
Attorney Must Provide Discovery in
Infraction Case
(April 29, 2022)
Six-Month
Bar on Clearing Encampments Was Invalid
(April 28, 2022)
C.A.
Approves Private Lawyers Representing
City in UCL Suit on Contingency-Fee
Basis
(April 28, 2022)
Kendig
Draws Praise for Judicial Service
(April 28, 2022)
A
Judge Reflects on Her Career in Law
(April 28, 2022)
State
Must Provide Unredacted Accident
Reports—C.A.
(April
27, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit to Reconsider En Banc Challenge
To California Law Banning Private Jails
(April
27, 2022)
C.A.
Disguises Parties’ Identities That Were
Already Revealed in Publicly Filed
Opinion
(April 27, 2022)
Actual
Ignorance of Identity Justifies Naming a
‘Doe’
(April 26, 2022)
Airline
Not Liable for Unforeseeable Attack By
One Passenger Against Another—C.A.
(April 26, 2022)
Irish
Bar Association Stages Pre-Meeting
Get-Together
(April 26, 2022)
$260,000
Fee Award Proper Though Damages Were
$2,500
(April 25, 2022)
Punitive-Damage
Claim Barred Based on Untimeliness of
Motion to Amend—C.A.
(April 25, 2022)
Bacardi
Did Not Infringe Rum-Maker’s ‘Untamed’
Mark
(April 22, 2022)
C.A.
Opinion Tells of Tactic Prompting
Recusal of All Judges of Small Court
(April 22, 2022)
EPA’s
Decision Not to Ban Dog Collar Chemical
Is Flawed
(April 21, 2022)
C.A.
Tells Parties That Despite Judgment
Nullifying Marriage, They Are Still Wed
(April 21, 2022)
D.A.
Must Testify as to Entreaties by County
Lawyers
(April 20, 2022)
ConAgra
Can’t Recoup $1.02 Million Payment to
Lead Paint Abatement Fund—C.A.
(April 20, 2022)
Inmate
May Not Contest Unauthorized Sentence by
Motion
(April 19, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Reinstates Putative Class Action
Under ERISA Against Trader Joe’s Company
(April 19, 2022)
Former
ADDA Chief Lambastes District Attorney
Gascón
(April 19, 2022)
DMV’s
License-Revocation Hearings Run
Unconstitutionally
(April 18, 2022)
New
Evidence, Fraud Justify Dumping $44
Million Judgment
(April 18, 2022)
State
Bar Fails to Protect Against Persistent
Ethics Violators
(April 15, 2022)
Ameliorative
Statute Applies to Revocation of Parole
Prior to Effective Date of Law—C.A.
(April 15, 2022)
School
District Not Liable for Teacher’s Sex
Acts With Pupil
(April 14, 2022)
Lawyer
Can’t Claim ‘Surprise’ Upon Learning of
Time Requirement in CCP, C.A. Declares
(April 14, 2022)
District
Court Judge Mendoza Nominated to Ninth
Circuit
(April 14, 2022)
Lawyer
Hit With $25,000 in Sanctions for
Claiming SLAPP
(April 13, 2022)
Judge
Buckley’s Last Day on Bench Is Friday
(April 13, 2022)
Out-of-State
Lawyer to Receive No Part of $4 Million
Fee
(April 12, 2022)
Fines
of More Than $300 Million Properly
Imposed on Johnson & Johnson—C.A.
(April 12, 2022)
Lawyers
Could Be Liable for Not Telling of
Client’s Misdeeds
(April 12, 2022)
Failing
to Warn of Anti-SLAPP Law Can Lead to
Liability
(April 11, 2022)
Court
Criticizes Celebrity Chef Cat Cora
(April 11, 2022)
Cross-Action
by Gen. Chuck Yeager’s Widow Was a SLAPP
(April 11, 2022)
C.A.
Denies Gascón’s Plea to Limit Judges’
Reconsiderations
(April 8, 2022)
C.A.
Affirms Denial of Public Records Request
for Names of Persons Arrested for DUI
(April 8, 2022)
Judge
Erred in Acting Based on Prospect Bill
Would Pass
(April 7, 2022)
Justices
Do Not Decide if Outsource Company That
Duns, Doesn’t Collect, Is
‘Debt-Collector’
(April 7, 2022)
Expulsion
by Private Law School Violated ‘Fair
Process’
(April 6, 2022)
CJP
Publicly Admonishes Judge Judith Meyer
(April 6, 2022)
Reason
Given for Barring Black Woman From Jury
Was Pretextual
(April 6, 2022)
C.A.
Affirms $2.2 Million Award Against
Ex-Lawyer/Stalker
(April 5, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit to Decide En Banc If Man Who
Feloniously Imperiled Child Can Be
Deported
(April 5, 2022)
Decision
Declining to Apply California Statute
Stands
(April 4, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Queries State High Court About
Duty to Warn in Medical Products Cases
(April 4, 2022)
New
Trial Properly Ordered in Suit Over
‘Columbo’ Profits
(April 1, 2022)
Yolo
Court Had No Jurisdiction in Case Based
On Actions in Sacramento Court—C.A.
(April 1, 2022)
Retiree
May Have Designation As ‘Deputy District
Attorney’
(March 30, 2022)
Indigent
Can’t Be Expected to Pay Part of
Arbitrator’s Fee
(March 29, 2022)
Adult
Store May Stage ‘Ladies Night’—C.A.
(March 29, 2022)
Registrar-Recorder’s
Office Alters Candidates’ Designations
(March 28, 2022)
Judges’
PAC Gives $165,000 to Boost Campaigns of
Gelfound, Elswick
(March 28, 2022)
Representative
Claim in PAGA Suit Improperly Stricken
(March 25, 2022)
Judge
Erred in Tossing Plea Bargain Based On
Defendant’s Late Arrival in Court—C.A.
(March 25, 2022)
Hearing
Set on Writ Petitions Of Hammond, Huerta
(March 25, 2022)
Involvement
in Conspiracy Before, After 18, Warrants
Trial As Adult—Ninth Circuit
(March 25, 2022)
Candidate
Seeks Writ in Bid to Expand Ballot
Designation
(March 24, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Action
Alleging Securities Fraud by
Twitter/a>
(March 24, 2022)
Ex-Prosecutor’s
Ballot Designation As Deputy D.A. Draws
Challenge
(March 23, 2022)
Conviction
for Threatening to Slay Judge Zacky
Upheld
(March 23, 2022)
Writ
Petition Challenges Eligibility of
Candidate for L.A. City Attorney Post
(March 22, 2022)
Three-Days-a-Week
‘Visitation’ Amounts to Joint Legal
Custody, Violating Presumption
(March 22, 2022)
‘Continuous
Representation’ Might Not End With
Firing
(March 22, 2022)
Judge
at Hearing on DVRO Application Must
Consider Entire Record—Appeals Court
(March 22, 2022)
C.A.
Keeps Identity of Client in
Fee-Splitting Dispute Secret
(March 21, 2022)
L.A.
County’s Flavored Tobacco Ban Is Valid
(March 21, 2022)
Preliminary
Injunction Against A.G. Was Validly
Issued
(March 18, 2022)
Senate
Confirms Slaughter as District Court
Judge
(March 18, 2022)
Slayer
Not Wrongfully Denied Conjugal Visits,
C.A. Holds
(March 17, 2022)
No
Need to Accord ‘Academic Deference’ to
Dismissal of Resident Physician by
Hospital
(March 17, 2022)
Action
by Cannabis Business Against City Not a
SLAPP
(March 16, 2022)
Judgment Founded on
Arbitration Award Can’t Be Assailed
Based on Judge’s Discovery Order
(March 16, 2022)
Amazon
Must Give Proposition 65 Warnings, C.A.
Holds
(March 15, 2022)
Newsom
Appoints Five to L.A. Superior Court
(March 15, 2022)
Line-Up
of Candidates Set, Battles Over
Designations Loom
(March 14, 2022)
Judge
Ryan Orders Briefing on Possibility of
Resentencing of Inmate Ordered Executed
(March 14, 2022)
Police
Station Renamed in Honor of Margaret
York
(March 14, 2022)
Katy
Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ Did Not Contain
Stolen Elements
(March 11, 2022)
Deputy
PDs Chastise Public Defender Over
Workloads
(March 10, 2022)
Judge
White-Brown Has No Election Challenger
(March 10, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Judge VanDyke’s Prediction Comes
True
(March 9, 2022)
Only
One Prospect of Additional Open Seat
Looms
(March 9, 2022)
Robles
Flipflops, Files Papers for Superior
Court Seat
(March 8, 2022)
Law
Firm Entitled to Attorney Fees Out of
‘Common Fund’ for 2,000 Hours of Work
(March 8, 2022)
Deputy
P.D.’s Challenge to Judge Gelfound Is
Now Official
(March 7, 2022)
Cantil-Sakauye
Lifts Four Emergency Orders As of April
30
(March 4, 2022)
Project
Can’t Be Blocked Under FHA, FEHA Based
on ‘Disparate Impact’ Theory
(March 4, 2022)
Appeals
Court Incorporates by Reference
Reasoning Set Forth in Opinion in
Earlier Same-Facts Case
(March 4, 2022)
Judge
Ryan Grants Standing to Family of Murder
Victim
(March 3, 2022)
Twitter’s
First Amendment Suit Is Not Ripe
(March 3, 2022)
Labor
Code §925 Trumps Compulsory
Cross-Complaint Law
(March 2, 2022)
Castro-Silva
to Resign as L.A. County Counsel
(March 2, 2022)
C.A.
Converts Appellant’s Name to Initials
(March 2, 2022)
Lawyer
Is a ‘Party’ for Purpose of Family Code
Sanction
(March 1, 2022)
Non-Verbatim
Repetition of Posted Allegations on
Different Website Not a New Publication—C.A.
(March 1, 2022)
Challenge
to Garnett Is Official; Kaddo Is Not
Opposed
(February 28, 2022)
Pauley
Issues Statement on Nomination of
Jackson
(February 28, 2022)
MICRA
Cap on Damages Applies to Physician
Assistants
(February 25, 2022)
Newsom
Appoints Judge Lucy Armendariz to
Committee Examining CJP
(February 25, 2022)
C.A.
Restores Blind Man’s Suit Over
‘Inaccessible’ Website
(February 24, 2022)
Infringement
Suit Was Axed Precipitously
(February 24, 2022)
Conspiracy
Suit Against County, Former D.A. Lacked
Merit
(February 24, 2022)
Deputy
DAs Back Recall of District Attorney
Gascón
(February 23, 2022)
Judge
Stewart to Retire From Superior Court
(February 23, 2022)
Gascón
Explains Shift on Sentencing Policy
(February 23, 2022)
There’s
No Right to Jury in PAGA Action, C.A.
Declares
(February 22, 2022)
No
Error in Not Striking Answer of
Defendant to Amended Pleading Despite
Earlier Default
(February 22, 2022)
Legality
of Resentencing in Chambers Draws
Challenge
(February 18, 2022)
Reference
to Defendant Being on Parole Did Not
Require Declaring a Mistrial—C.A.
(February 18, 2022)
Man
Convicted of Threats He Contends Were
Not Reasonably Believable Loses Appeal
(February 18, 2022)
Man
Convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter Is
Deportable
(February 17, 2022)
Seven-Year-Plus
Sentence for Man, 80, Affirmed
(February 17, 2022)
Judge
Erred in Denying Arbitration Based on
Procedural Bar
(February 17, 2022)
Miranda
Right Need Not Be Invoked With Formality
(February 17, 2022)
Governor
to Nominate Guerrero to State High Court
Seat
(February 16, 2022)
Judicial
Candidate Says DA’s Office Punished Him
for Being ‘Fair,’ Won’t Provide
Specifics
(February 16, 2022)
LASC’s
In-Court Mask Requirement Is
Constitutionally Valid
(February 16, 2022)
Lawyer
Draws One-Month Suspension for Potshots
(February 16, 2022)
Judge
Gelfound Answers Challenger, Defends His
Record
(February 15, 2022)
Four
Candidacies Emerge as Filing of
Declarations Ends
(February 15, 2022)
Judge
Elswick’s Challenger Is Infuriated Over
News Story
(February 14, 2022)
DCFS Ignored Statutory Duty to Determine
If Dependent Child Had Indian
Ancestry—C.A.
(February 14, 2022)
Challenge
to Judge David Gelfound Is Based on
Philosophy
(February 11, 2022)
Order
for Forced Medication Can’t Be Based on
Recommendation of Psychologist—C.A.
(February 11, 2022)
District
Attorney Gascón Won’t Address ADDA
(February 11, 2022)
Confusion
Led to Denial of §1473.7 Motion
(February 11, 2022)
LASC
Judges Elswick, Gelfound Draw Election
Challenges
(February 10, 2022)
PJ
Taylor Announces ‘Full Resumption’ of
Trials
(February 10, 2022)
Trial
Lawyer Gerry Spence, 93, Won’t Get Quick
Trial
(February 9, 2022)
C.A.:
Statutory Penalty, Punitive Damages
Didn’t Constitute Impermissible Double
Punishment
(February 9, 2022)
ADDA
to Vote on Whether to Back Recall of
D.A. Gascón
(February 8, 2022)
Recreational
Immunity Bars Suit by Jogger
(February 8, 2022)
Two
File Declarations for Superior Court
Open Seat
(February 8, 2022)
Emergency
Rule Plus Statute Doesn’t Block
Dismissal
(February 7, 2022)
Judgeship
Candidate Yanks Representations From
Website Implying Incumbency
(February 7, 2022)
C.A.
Affirms $14 Million Judgment Against
Murderer
(February 7, 2022)
C.A.
Restores Defamation Suit by Ousted
Angels Employee
(February 4, 2022)
Lawyer
to Challenge LASC Judge Garnett
(February 4, 2022)
Sixth
Open Seat Emerges in L.A. Superior Court
Elections
(February 3, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Finds Psychologist’s Report
Faulty
(February 3, 2022)
More
Take Steps Toward L.A. Superior Court
Candidacies
(February 2, 2022)
Notice
Ineffective for Failing to Warn of Right
to Lawyer Though Party Had a Lawyer
(February 2, 2022)
10
Pull Declarations to Seek L.A. Superior
Court Seats
(February 1, 2022)
No
Error in Barring Company Chief From
Portions of Trial
(January 31, 2022)
Judge
Kaddo Says He Will Seek Reelection
(January 31, 2022)
C.A.
Panel Disavows Its Earlier Opinion on
Attorney Fees
(January 28, 2022)
Barger,
Cooley Blast DA’s Juvenile-Transfer
Policy
(January 28, 2022)
LASC
Judge Moloney Won’t Seek Reelection,
Creating Open Seat
(January 28, 2022)
Order
for Specific Performance Did Not Bar
Damage Award
(January 28, 2022)
Lawyer
Says He Will Challenge LASC Judge James
Kaddo
(January 27, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Rebuffs Teachers’ Bid for Refund
of Dues
(January 27, 2022)
Unnamed
Defendant Can’t Remove Case to District
Court
(January 26, 2022)
Judge
Blocks Implementation of Good-Conduct
Rule
(January 26, 2022)
State Bar Hires Law Firm to Probe
Girardi’s Influence
(January 25, 2022)
Protester
Was to Blame for Her Own Injuries
(January 25, 2022)
Judge
Properly Denied Jury Where Fees Not
Posted—C.A.
(January 24, 2022)
Gene
Kelly’s Widow Justifiably Sanctioned
(January 24, 2022)
VanDyke
Writes for Majority, Spoofs Opinion
Arriving at Contrary Result
(January 21, 2022)
Panel
Reverses Axing of Action Against L.A.
County
(January 21, 2022)
Company
Not Bound by Statutory Ceiling on
Photocopying Charges by Medical
Providers
(January 21, 2022)
Ex-Scientologists
Need Not Arbitrate Dispute With Church
(January 20, 2022)
Two
Nominations Made to District Courts in
State
(January 20, 2022)
No
Liability for Detention of Trespassing
Photographer
(January 19, 2022)
Newsom
Failed to Put Forth ‘Some Evidence’
Supporting His Blocking of Parole—C.A.
(January 19, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Denies En Banc Hearing in
Vaccination Case
(January 18, 2022)
PAC
Boasts ‘About’ $300,000 at Hand to
Defend Challenged LASC Judges
(January 18, 2022)
Gascón
Emerges As an Issue in Attorney
General’s Race
(January 14, 2022)
Former
DA Cooley Warns of ‘Dirty Tricksters’
(January 14, 2022)
Award
of Costs for Exhibits Not Used at Trial
Not Mandatory
(January 14, 2022)
Judge
White-Brown to Run, but Will Retire Soon
(January 14, 2022)
Gatto,
Early Make Moves Toward Seeking
Statewide Offices
(January 13, 2022)
No
Need to Rule on Anti-SLAPP Motion in
Dismissed Case As Prelude to Fee Request
(January 13, 2022)
Deputy
DA Says He Won’t Be Challenging Judge
(January 13, 2022)
Five
DDAs, One Private Lawyer Eye Superior
Court Seats
(January 12, 2022)
C.A.
Repudiates 1935 State Supreme Court
Decision
(January 11, 2022)
Car
Thief Properly Ordered to Pay Victim for
Tarnishing of Title Based on the
Pilfering
(January 11, 2022)
C.A.
Upholds Firing of Officers Who Skirted
Duty, Lied
(January 10, 2022)
Defendant Who Answered ‘Yeah’ Intelligently Waived
Jury
(January 7, 2022)
Bonta
Cautions Against Prosecutions for
Feticide Based on Mother’s Actions
(January 7, 2022)
Judge’s Mid-Testimony Remark on Credibility
Permissible
(January 6, 2022)
C.A. Decides Case Involving ‘Measly’ Amount
(January 6, 2022)
C.A. Rejects Contention As to Specificity of
CCP §998 Offer
(January 6, 2022)
Personal Service Is Required of Request for
Permanent Elder-Abuse Restraining Order
(January 6, 2022)
No Change in Support Obligation of
Out-of-Work Party
(January 5, 2022)
County’s Ban on Home Auto Repair Businesses Does
Not Create Private Cause of Action—C.A.
(January 5, 2022)
Violent Felon Is Not Entitled to Early Parole
Hearing
(January 4, 2022)
S.C. Upholds Death Sentence, Says Confession
Not Linked to Earlier Miranda Violations
(January 4, 2022)
Suits Against Bayer Properly Shunted Back to
State Court
(January 3, 2022)
C.A. Scraps $1.25 Million Judgment Based on
Pupil’s Injury While Running on
Playground
(January 3, 2022)
Suspicion of People-Smuggling at Border Justified
Vehicle Stop
(January 3, 2022) |
