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L.A.
Wins a Battle in War Over New Burbank
Terminal
(March 30, 2023)
Bress
Questions Why Ninth Circuit Permits
Appeals From Anti-SLAPP Motion Denials
(March 30, 2023)
City
Not Liable for Unsanitary Conditions at
Its Building
(March 29, 2023)
Funeral
Service Set for Jurist Norman L. Epstein
(March 29, 2023)
Act
Penalizing Chartered Cities That Tax
Groceries Is Invalid
(March 29, 2023)
A
Judge Tells of Plans, Reflects on 20
Years on the Bench
(March 29, 2023)
‘Good
Cause’ Isn’t Needed for
Suppression-Hearing Delay
(March 28, 2023)
Hatami
to Announce Bid to Unseat Gascón
(March 28, 2023)
Retired
Court of Appeal Presiding Justice
Epstein, 89, Dies
(March 27, 2023)
Logan:
Gascón Recall Backers Turned In Bogus
Signatures
(March 24, 2023)
Judges
Shapiro, Dabney Set Official Dates for
Retirement From Los Angeles Superior
Court
(March 24, 2023)
Mother
Had No Right to Admission of Secret
Recordings
(March 24, 2023)
Avenatti’s
First Wife Must Turn Over $717,723,
Artwork
(March 23, 2023)
ADDA
Links Up With Civilian Mariners’ Union
(March 23, 2023)
Law
Firm’s Use of Pilfered Emails Justifies
Disqualification
(March 22, 2023)
Action
by Attorney Seeking Determination of His
Share of Settlement Not a SLAPP—C.A.
(March 22, 2023)
No
Comment on Axing of Suit Based on Lawyer
Misconduct
(March 22, 2023)
Judge
Improperly Conditioned Seeking of
Modification
(March 21, 2023)
Ninth
Circuit Rejects Challenge to Order
Denying Compassionate Release
(March 21, 2023)
Judges
Elect Montgomery LASC Commissioner
(March 21, 2023)
Uber’s
Suit Challenging Worker-Classification
Law Revived
(March 20, 2023)
Mother’s
Desire to Change Name of Child Over
Father’s Objection Justified Order
(March 20, 2023)
Attorney
Who Wins Fees Can’t Be Liable for
Malpractice
(March 17, 2023)
Former
State Bar Court Judge Talcott Dies
(March 17, 2023)
Gascón
Cancels Meeting With ADDA Leaders
(March 17, 2023)
Insurer
Might Be Liable in Talent Agency’s $5
Million Suit
(March 16, 2023)
Two
C.A. Holdings in a Single Case Come in
One Opinion, Another in Separate Opinion
(March 16, 2023)
Judge’s
Declaration Was Enough to Defeat
Disqualification
(March 15, 2023)
Jury
Waiver That Deviated From Guidelines
Wasn’t Knowing, Intelligent,
Voluntary—C.A.
(March 15, 2023)
Forbes
Media Not Entitled to Information in
Sealed Files
(March 14, 2023)
LASC
Judge Dalila Corral Lyons Set to Retire
(March 14, 2023)
Girardi
Gave $1 Million-Plus to State Bar
Investigator
(March 13, 2023)
Makers
of Generic Drug Must Copy Brand-Name
Labeling
(March 10, 2023)
Labor
Commissioner’s Deposition Subpoena Was
Properly Snubbed, C.A. Declares
(March 10, 2023)
State
Bar for Second Time Reverses Itself on
References to ‘UC Hastings’ Law School
(March 10, 2023)
Ninth
Circuit Upholds $30,000 Sanction Against
Lawyers
(March 9, 2023)
Court
of Appeal Declares That 2005 Order for
Attorney Fees Was in Excess of
Jurisdiction
(March 9, 2023)
Ninth
Circuit Hands Off Issues in Detainee-Pay
Case
(March 8, 2023)
State
Bar Resumes Reference to Law School in
Attorney Profiles As ‘UC Hastings COL’
(March 8, 2023)
Twitter
May Be Barred From Disclosing FBI
Demands
(March 7, 2023)
Superior
Court Judge Beverly L. Bourne Dies
(March 7, 2023)
Juvenile
Court Order Must Be Vacated in Case of
Man, 26
(March 7, 2023)
Defense
Impliedly Consented to Mistrial Through
Silence
(March 6, 2023)
Cruelty-to-Elephants
Suit Against Private Zoo Is Not a SLAPP,
Court of Appeal Declares
(March 6, 2023)
All
Murders-by-Poison Are Not in the First
Degree
(March 3, 2023)
Newman
Delays Exit From Bench by Three Weeks
(March 3, 2023)
ADDA
Accuses Gascón of Breaching Ethics,
Office Policy
(March 2, 2023)
District
Court Judge Benitez to Be Investigated
(March 2, 2023)
Restitution
Order Must Be Based on Current Value
(March 2, 2023)
Cross-Complaint
of Mark Geragos, Others Was a SLAPP
( March 1, 2023)
Judge
Orozco Says Her Retirement From
Superior Court Means No More Working
(March 1, 2023)
‘Stay’
Existed Where Any Action on Complaint
Was Barred
(February 28, 2023)
Judge
Karlan Leaves L.A. Superior Court
(February 28, 2023)
Judgment
Creditor Cannot Seize Academy Award
‘Oscar’
(February 27, 2023)
Alleged
Assault of Fired Employee Does Not
Come Under Workers’ Compensation
(February 27, 2023)
Man
Who Participated in Paternity
Proceeding Did Not Thereby Acknowledge
Child—C.A.
(February 27, 2023)
Lawyer’s
Duty to Non-Clients Is Narrow, C.A.
Declares
(February 24, 2023)
Learning
of Parole-Search Condition Did Not
Justify Search Where Detention Was
Unlawful
(February 24, 2023)
City
Lacked Power to Close Street for
Three-Year Exhibit
(February 24, 2023)
Jury
Wasn’t Coerced in Trial of Black
Supremacist Slayer
(February 23, 2023)
Ninth
Circuit Panel Is Split on Duty to
Return Unlicensed Driver’s Impounded
Vehicle
(February 23, 2023)
$650
Per Hour Is Reasonable Rate for
Small-Firm Lawyer
(February 22, 2023)
C.A.:
Lawyer May Not Be Sanctioned Under CCP
§2025.450 Based on Clients’ Conduct
(February 22, 2023)
Breach
of ADA Is Not Necessarily an Unruh Act
Violation
(February 21, 2023)
Newsom
Elevates Judge Adams to Court of
Appeal
(February 21, 2023)
San
Francisco’s Noise Ordinance Is Upheld
(February 21, 2023)
Judge
Sotelo Reflects on 20-Year Bench
Career
(February 21, 2023)
Sony
Didn’t Breach Actor’s Descendible
Publicity Rights
(February 17, 2023)
No-Contest
Plea Does Not Bar Suit Brought by Man
Against Whom Charges Were Dismissed
(February 17, 2023)
Employer
May Require Assent to Arbitration of
Disputes
(February 16, 2023)
California
Has Significant Policy Precluding
Honoring Interest Rates That Are
Usurious
(February 16, 2023)
Ousted
Judge Loses Bid in C.A. to Get Boost
in Pension
(February 15, 2023)
Man
Fired As Police Officer Has No Claim
Based on Substantive Due-Process
Denial
(February 15, 2023)
Dispute
Over Ticketmaster Prices Must Be
Arbitrated
(February 14, 2023)
Business
Sued by ‘Serial’ ADA Filer Can’t
Appeal Denial of Vexatious-Litigant
Order
(February 14, 2023)
‘Shall
Be Dismissed’ Language in Statute Is
Not Mandatory
(February 13, 2023)
District
Court Lacked Jurisdiction to
Invalidate Common-Law Trademark
(February 13, 2023)
Attorney
Honored
(February 13, 2023)
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