Carter
to Retire as L.A. Superior Court’s
Executive Officer
(September 9, 2022)
C.A.
Affirms Conviction of Man Whose Son Died
as Result of ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’
(September 9, 2022)
C.A.
Sets Rules for Relief Where Appeal
Notice Filed Late
(September 8, 2022)
Legislation
Shortening Probation Necessitates
Retroactive Nullification of
Revocation—C.A.
(September 8, 2022)
School
District Not Liable to Pupils Who Viewed
Slayings
(September 7, 2022)
Court
Records Won’t Be Sealed Where Defendant
Wasn’t Subjected to Arrest
(September 7, 2022)
Man
Was ‘Actual Killer’ of Victim Who Died
From Stress
(September 6, 2022)
C.A.:
No Relief From Striking Complaint Where
Lawyer for Plaintiff Blundered
(September 6, 2022)
C.A.
Issues Opinions in Latest Disputes in
26-Year Series
(September 2, 2022)
Judge
Percy Anderson Exceeded Authority in
Remanding Case Sua Sponte—Ninth Circuit
(September 2, 2022)
San
Luis Obispo District Attorney Dan Dow
Responds to Decision of Court of Appeal
(September 2, 2022)
D.A.
Properly Recused Over Anti-Black Lives
Matter Stance
(September 1, 2022)
Legislation
to Create ‘CARE Courts’ Is Enacted
(September 1, 2022)
C.A.
Reinstates $850,000 Verdict in
Slip-and-Fall Case
(August 31, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Rebuffs Challenge to Use in
District Courts of State Anti-SLAPP Law
(August 31, 2022)
S.C.
Clarifies Procedure in Gauging If Speech
Is Protected
(August 30, 2022)
Expulsion
Not Overly Harsh for Student Who Had
Nonconsensual Sex With Woman—C.A.
(August 30, 2022)
Judge
Botched Ballot-Designation Ruling in
Judicial Race
(August 30, 2022)
Producer
Not Liable for Conduct of Off-Duty
Personal Chef
(August 29, 2022)
Commission
Approves Nomination of Guerrero As
California Chief Justice
(August 29, 2022)
C.A.
Division, for Fifth Time, Rejects
Arguments Advanced by Slayer
(August 29, 2022)
Onica
Cole Was Properly Fired as Deputy City
Attorney
(August 26, 2022)
Fees
Were Wrongly Denied to Parties Based on
Not Joining in First-Filed Anti-SLAPP
Motion
(August 26, 2022)
Judge
Required Too High a Showing in
Trade-Dress Suit
(August 25, 2022)
Judicial
Council Confers Award on Sherri Carter,
Four Others, for ‘Distinguished Service’
(August 25, 2022)
C.A.
Evinces Impatience With Antics of Lawyer
Albert
(August 25, 2022)
Debt
Collection Agency Might Be Liable Based
(August 25, 2022)
City
Can Be Alter Ego of Another Governmental
Entity
(August 24, 2022)
C.A.
Says DCFS Violated Due-Process Rights of
Mother by Failing to Give Notice
(August 24, 2022)
Unreasonable
Mistake of Fact Negates Criminality—S.C.
(August 23, 2022)
2017
Decision Prescribing Jury Determination
As to the Nature of Prior Is Not
Retroactive
(August 23, 2022)
Judge
Can’t Shun Unruh Act Suit Without
Notice, Hearing
(August 22, 2022)
Agent’s
Power to Make ‘Health Care Decisions’
Does Not Include Agreeing to Arbitration
(August 22, 2022)
Hype
for Michael Jackson Album Was Commercial
Speech
(August 19, 2022)
Order
to Ex-Wife to Pay Fees of Attorneys for
High-Salaried Ex-Husband Is Reversed
(August 19, 2022)
Suit
Over Entreaties on Facebook to Dr. Phil
Was a SLAPP
(August 19, 2022)
Behaving
Badly Didn’t Justify Restraining
Order—C.A.
(August 18, 2022)
Winemakers
Did Not Breach Law by Giving
Nonoperational Pizza Oven to Grocery
Store
(August 18, 2022)
State
Bar Dues Bill Approved by Senate
(August 18, 2022)
Cooley,
Logan Clash Over Signature-Verification
Laws
(August 17, 2022)
Requiring
a Showing of Driver’s License at
Sobriety Checkpoint Is Constitutional
(August 17, 2022)
Registrar-Recorder’s Office Says Gascón
Recall Bid Fails
(August 16, 2022)
ADDA
Vice President Siddall Lambastes
Garcetti, Krinsky, Chemerinsky Over
Op-Ed Piece
(August 16, 2022)
Ex-Air
Force General Not Immune in Sexual
Assault Case
(August 15, 2022)
Firm
Did Not Convert Funds by Paying Them to
Party Rather Than Attorney With Lien
(August 15, 2022)
Appeals
Court Won’t Accord Anonymity to Criminal
Defendant
(August 15, 2022)
Charity,
Project Chief Are Limited-Purpose Public
Figures
(August 12, 2022)
$1
Million Emotional-Distress Award in
Favor of Estate Must Be Restored—C.A.
(August 12, 2022)
Southwestern
to Honor Memory of Arleigh Woods
(August 12, 2022)
Newsom
to Nominate Guerrero As California Chief
Justice
(August 11, 2022)
‘Align’-Brand
Yoga Leggings Aren’t Apt to Be Confused
With ‘Aliign’-Brand Yoga Leggings
(August 11, 2022)
Misappropriation
of Funds Is Not ‘Protected Activity—C.A.
(August 11, 2022)
Goldman
Confirmed As Court of Appeal Justice
(August 11, 2022)
Expert
Hired by Prosecution Can’t Testify at
SVPA Trial
(August 10, 2022)
Judgment
for Full Amount of Debt Wasn’t
Unenforceable Penalty, C.A. Declares
(August 10, 2022)
Newsom
Appoints Dansby, Santiso to LASC
(August 10, 2022)
Judge
Must Authorize a Party to Proceed As
‘John Doe’
(August 9, 2022)
C.A.:
Agency Bringing FEHA Action Not Bound by
Employer-Employee Arbitration Agreement
(August 9, 2022)
Murder
Conviction Was Based on ‘Legally Invalid
Theory’
(August 8, 2022)
Memorial
Ceremony to Be Held for Karen Nobumoto
(August 8, 2022)
School
District Can’t Be Sued Under Unruh Civil
Rights Act
(August 5, 2022)
Associate’s
UPL Did Not Invalidate Arbitration
Agreement
(August 4, 2022)
Building
Owner Not Liable for Death of Tenant Who
Fell From Roof—C.A.
(August 4, 2022)
Baltodano
Confirmed As Court of Appeal Justice
(August 4, 2022)
Standalone
Website Is Not a ‘Public
Accommodation’—C.A.
(August 3, 2022)
Judge
Aided Effort to Block Dissolution of LLC
That Had Already Been Dissolved
(August 3, 2022)
Disbarred
Lawyer’s $2 Million Debt to State Bar
Wiped Out
(August 2, 2022)
Orrick
Must Comply With Arbital Summonses
Served by Jones Day, Ninth Circuit
Declares
(August 2, 2022)
C.A.
Disallows Attorney-Fee Award Before
Final Judgment
(August 1, 2022)
Court
of Appeal Publicly Releases Version of
Opinion Previously Bearing Redactions
(August 1, 2022)
Deborah
Gonzales Elected LASC Commissioner
(August 1, 2022)
Remote-Testimony
Option Doesn’t Bar Change of Venue
(August 1, 2022)
California
Failed to Negotiate in Good Faith With
Tribes
(July 29, 2022)
Schwartz,
Vazquez to Retire From Superior Court
(July 29, 2022)
Cantil-Sakauye
Won’t Seek New Term As Chief Justice
(July 28, 2022)
Blocking
Postings on Web Pages Breached First
Amendment
(July 28, 2022)
Bad
Faith Not Required for
Breach-of-Local-Rule Sanction
(July 27, 2022)
D.A.
Gascón Asks Judge Ryan to Relieve Man
Who Committed Slayings of Death Penalty
(July 27, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Votes Not to Rehear
Alien-Smuggling Case
(July 26, 2022)
C.A.
Rejects Two-Year Robbery-at-Knifepoint
Sentence
(July 25, 2022)
Barger
Blasts Gascón Over Not Seeking
Resentencing in Criminal Court
(July 25, 2022)
No
Resentencing of Robber Who Held Gun
After Shooting
(July 25, 2022)
Party
in Default Has Standing to Make
New-Trial Motion
(July 22, 2022)
High
Court Upholds Death Sentence, Finding
Rejection of Eyewitness Testimony
Harmless
(July 22, 2022)
C.A.
Lifts Bar on Husband Representing Wife
in Lawsuit
(July 21, 2022)
Craig
Mitchell Eyes D.A.’s Race, Cooley Being
Urged to Run
(July 20, 2022)
Summary
Judgment Reversed in PAGA Suit Over
Allegation of Inadequate Seating
(July 20, 2022)
Yagman
Loses Federal Appeal Over $1,000 Parking
Ticket
(July 19, 2022)
Judges
Mori, Kim Vetted for C.A. Appointment
(July 19, 2022)
State
Bar Takes Over Practice of Nonlawyer
(July 19, 2022)
ADDA
Slams Gascón Based on Petitioning S.C.
for Review
(July 18, 2022)
Public
Has No Right to Statistics on Actions by
CJP Prior to Formal Proceedings
(July 18, 2022)
Sotheby’s
Might Be on Hook for $4 Million for
Slip-Up
(July 15, 2022)
Full
Counting of Gascón Recall Petitions to
Proceed
(July 15, 2022)
C.A.
Restores Suit Against Insurer for
COVID-19 Losses
(July 14, 2022)
S.C.
Denies Review in Challenge to Order by
Judge Reinstating Sentence Allegations
(July 14, 2022)
D.A.’s
Office Urges Transcript Unsealing in
Polanski Case
(July 13, 2022)
Wiley
Says Tribes Should Be Recognized As Real
Parties in Interest in Dependency Cases
(July 13, 2022)
Police
Officer’s Records Not Subject to Public
Disclosure
(July 12, 2022)
No
Immediate Appeal From the Denial of
Attorney Fees in Anti-SLAPP Case—C.A
(July 12, 2022)
State
Bar Picks Davtyan As General Counsel
(July 12, 2022)
C.A. Orders Resentencing in Case That
Was Final Feb. 28
(July 11, 2022)
D.A.’s
Office Seeks to Block Deportation of
Woman-Beater
(July 8, 2022)
Traffic
Stop Was Pretext for Summoning Dog Who
Sniffed for Drugs, Invalidating Search
(July 8, 2022)
Group
Files 717,000 Signatures on
Recall-Gascón Petitions
(July 7, 2022)
C.A.
Justices at Odds on Dealing With DCFS’s
Failure to Probe Possible Indian
Heritage
(July 7, 2022)
C.A.
Reverses $3 Million Punitive-Damage Over
Talcum
(July 6, 2022)
Whether
Campaign to Put Gascón Recall on Ballot
Has Enough Signatures Is in Doubt
(July 6, 2022)
CJP
Chastises Orange Superior Court Judge
Derek W. Hunt
(July 6, 2022)
Judge
Acted Precipitously in Setting
Attorney-Fee Award
(July 5, 2022)
Newsom
Appoints Marshak to L.A. Superior Court
(July 5, 2022)
Gill,
Soto to Compete for L.A. City Attorney
(July 5, 2022)
Loitering
for Prostitution No Longer Criminal
(July 5, 2022)
School
District Might Be Liable for After-Hours
Attack
(July 1, 2022)
C.A.
Affirms Dismissal of Defamation Suit
Against Former Amazon CEO Bezos
(July 1, 2022)
S.C.
Resolves Conflict Over Requisites for
Issue Preclusion
(July 1, 2022)
Arbitration
Clause in Retainer Agreement Is
Invalidated
(June 30, 2022)
Sonoma
Sheriff Not Entitled to Concealment of
Report on Him to Board of Supervisors
(June 30, 2022)
Lowering-of-Rent
Provision Wasn’t Unenforceable Penalty
(June 29, 2022)
C.A.’s
Majority: Crimes So Horrendous That
Re-Sentencing Under New Law Is Pointless
(June 29, 2022)
Gill,
Soto Still Lead in City Attorney Race
(June 29, 2022)
Senate
Conforms Cardona As State Bar Chief
Trial Counsel
(June 29, 2022)
Writer
Gains Hearing on Bid to See Slain Girl’s
Records
(June 28, 2022)
Man
Who Alleged Citizenship at Sentencing
May Pursue Motion Under P.C. §1473.7
(June 28, 2022)
Suit
by Man Wrongfully Convicted of Slaying
Is Reinstated
(June 27, 2022)
Perjury
Prosecution Barred Against Man Who Swore
He Had Not Been in ‘Trouble’ With Law
(June 27, 2022)
Gill,
Soto Remain Ahead in City Attorney Race
(June 27, 2022)
D.A.’s
Office Not Subject to Recusal Based on
Prior Probe
(June 24, 2022)
Corporation
Suing Director Can’t Deny Access to
Books on That Fact Alone, C.A. Declares
(June 24, 2022)
C.A.
Orders Publication of Opinion Declaring
Entreaty to Fire Lawyer to Be
‘Protected’
(June 24, 2022)
Marina
Torres Drops to Third Place in City
Attorney Race
(June 23, 2022)
Oral
§170.6 Challenge Was Valid Though Not
Under Oath
(June 22, 2022)
Order
Denying Vexatious Litigant’s Motion to
File Lawsuit Is Nonappealable, C.A. Says
(June 22, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Won’t Reinstate Yagman As Member
of Bar
(June 21, 2022)
C.A.
Says A.G.’s Office Improperly Named in
Action in Which Its Opinion Was Invoked
(June 21, 2022)
Good
Faith Wasn’t Required of Insured During
Negotiations
(June 17, 2022)
C.A.
Says Surety Sued for $3.4 Million Wasn’t
‘Prevailing Party’ Though Award Was for
$1
(June 17, 2022)
Group
Has Enough Signatures for Gascón Recall
Election
(June 16, 2022)
Hogue
to Retire From L.A. Superior Court
(June 16, 2022)
Siblings
Have No Associational Claim Over Fatal
Shooting
(June 16, 2022)
C.A.
Disbelieves Claim of Not Grasping
Immigration Consequence of Plea
(June 16, 2022)
C.A.
Orders Publication of Anti-SLAPP Opinion
(June 16, 2022)
Biden
Names Desai to Ninth Circuit
(June 16, 2022)
Personal
Suit Precludes Later Suing on Behalf of
Public
(June 15, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Judge VanDyke Issues Rebuke to
Colleagues for Ignoring Deference
Standard
(June 15, 2022)
Pay
Not Owed for Taking Pre-Employment Drug
Test
(June 14, 2022)
Panel:
Damaging Property With Bomb Doesn’t
Necessarily Fit Category of ‘Violent’
(June 14, 2022)
Bigamist
Is Not Barred From Receiving Spousal
Support
(June 13, 2022)
California’s
Bar on Two-Time Losers Gaining EMT
Certification Is Constitutional
(June 13, 2022)
LASC’s
Post-Judgment Attorney-Fee Award
Declared Invalid
(June 10, 2022)
Justice
Wiley Lectures Bar to Be Forthright In
Crafting Clients’ Discovery Responses
(June 10, 2022)
Recall
of Boudin Seen As Boost to Efforts To
Oust Gascón As
District Attorney
(June 10, 2022)
Female
Judicial Candidates Find Favor With
Voters
(June 9, 2022)
Los
Angeles Superior Court Primary Election
Results
(June 9, 2022)
Privilege
Need Not Be Specified to Be Affirmative
Defense
(June 8, 2022)
Judge
Erred in Including Husband of Defendant
in Civil Restraining Order
(June 8, 2022)
Cantil-Sakauye
Contracts COVID-19, Is Isolated
(June 8, 2022)
Urging
Parents to Fire Their Lawyer Is
Protected Conduct
(June 7, 2022)
Third
District C.A. Judge Dissents From Order
to Publish Opinion
(June 7, 2022)
Lawyer’s
Suit Against Archbishop, Two Bishops
Reinstated
(June 6, 2022)
C.A.:
Inmates Have No Right to TV Set in Cells
(June 6, 2022)
Gascón’s
Special Directives Are Partially
Unenforceable
(June 3, 2022)
Suit
Over Nonpayment of Royalties for Playing
Old Records Doesn’t Involve Protected
Speech
( June 3, 2022)
Uber
Isn’t Liable for Rapes by Men Posing As
Its Drivers
(June 2, 2022)
California
Supreme Court Disbars Girardi
(June 2, 2022)
Lascivious
Acts Justify $50 Million Punitive-Damage
Award
(June 1, 2022)
Bumble
Bee Is a ‘Fish,’ Under Statute—C.A.
(June 1, 2022)
Firm
Properly Barred for Having Confidential
Information
(May 31, 2022)
FTC’s
‘Holder Rule’ Doesn’t Bar Attorney-Fee
Award
(May 27, 2022)
Causing
Deaths by Driving Under Influence of
Marijuana Was Second-Degree Murder—C.A.
(May 27, 2022)
LASC
Judge Frederick Wapner Retires From
Bench Today
(May 27, 2022)
Federal
Prison in Victorville Might Not Be on
Federal Land
(May 26, 2022)
Court
Says Compassionate Release Properly
Denied Gang Leader Who Conspired to
Commit Murder
(May 26, 2022)
Ann
I. Park Says She Would Decline
Commissionership
(May 26, 2022)
C.A.
Won’t Decide Applicability of Immunity
Statute
(May 25, 2022)
Accident
Caused Car Damage but Not Injuries
Incurred When Stepping Out of Rented SUV
(May 25, 2022)
Collection,
Disclosure of E-Scooter Data Is Not a
Search
(May 24, 2022)
Judges
Choose Kim, Butler, Gerber As
Commissioners
(May 24, 2022)
L.A.
Archdiocese’s Anti-SLAPP Motion Properly
Denied
(May 23, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Opinion Does Not Justify City’s
Deviation From Statute, C.A. Declares
(May 23, 2022)
Irish
American Bar Members Meet With
Ambassador
(May 23, 2022)
Conviction
Doesn’t Revive Action Against Felon’s
Employer
(May 20, 2022)
City
Suing for Unfairness to Workers Is Not
Bound by Their Arbitration
Agreement—C.A.
(May 20, 2022)
Judge
Who Did Not Contribute to Book May Not
Write ‘Blurb’ for Cover Using Name,
Title
(May 20, 2022)
Suit
Against Twitter for Banning Trump
Properly Dismissed
(May 19, 2022)
Parties
Should Be Required to ‘Meet, Confer’
Before Anti-SLAPP Motion Is Heard—Judge
(May 19, 2022)
Pandemic
Justified Trial Delay of More Than a
Year
(May 18, 2022)
Ninth
Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Action
Alleging Racial Bias by American
Airlines
(May 18, 2022)
Stratton
Confirmed as C.A. Presiding Justice
(May 18, 2022)
Prevailing
Defendants in Malpractice Action Get No
Fees
(May 17, 2022)
Former
State Bar President Nobumoto Dies
(May 17, 2022)
Governor
Boosts Proposed Budget Allocation to
Courts
(May 16, 2022)
Newsom’s
Emergency COVID Orders Forcing Closures
Were Not ‘Takings’—C.A.
(May 16, 2022)
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
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