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2021
Katy Perry’s Litigation Foe Loses Bid to Retain Mansion
(December 30, 2021)
Private
Judge Hired to Decide Divorce Issues Was
Empowered to Issue DVRO—C.A.
(December 30, 2021)
Judge’s
Stock in Party’s Parent Company Requires
Recusal
(December 29, 2021)
Billionaire
Loses Second Appeal in Two Weeks
(December 29, 2021)
Class
Action Proceeds Need Not Go to Class
Members
(December 28, 2021)
Employer
Is Liable for Fire-Fighting Costs
Resulting From Employee’s Negligence
(December 28, 2021)
Link
Between Judge, DDA Too Tenuous to
Require Recusal
(December 27, 2021)
Failure
of Dependency Court to Inquire As to
Indian Ancestry Requires Remand—C.A.
(December 27, 2021)
Sale
of Small Amounts of Marijuana Not
Deportable Crime
(December 23, 2021)
Franklin
Hearing Can’t Be Denied Based on Face of
Motion, Court of Appeal Holds
(December 23, 2021)
C.A.
Rejects See’s Candies’s Exclusive Remedy
Defense
(December 22, 2021)
C.A.
Dumps Appeal by Attorney in Pro Per,
Says Justices Won’t Act As His Counsel
(December 22, 2021)
Drawing
Blood Sample From Suspect Who Was
Unconscious Was Permissible—C.A.
(December 22, 2021)
City
Council’s Public Hearing Was Not
Mandated ‘Remedy’
(December 21, 2021)
MICRA’s
Limit on Damages Does Not Apply To
Actions Brought Under Elder Abuse Act
(December 21, 2021)
Class
Certification Properly Denied in Action
Against AFI
(December 20, 2021)
Judge
Did Not Coerce Waiver at LPS Hearing By
Telling of Nine-Month Delay for Jury
Trial
(December 20, 2021)
Justices
Reverse $2.7 Million ‘Failure to Warn’
Judgment
(December 17, 2021)
Judges
‘Admonished’ to Ignore CCP §425.16 If
Commercial Speech Exemption Applies
(December 17, 2021)
Parent’s
Mere Use of Alcohol Absent Abuse Did Not
Justify Order for Abstinence—C.A.
(December 17, 2021)
Action
Alleging Talent Agency Swiped Script May
Proceed
(December 16, 2021)
C.A.
Affirms Order Appointing Receiver to
Collect Past Due Support From TV Chef
(December 16, 2021)
Navarro
Elected Court Commissioner
(December 16, 2021)
Lawsuit
Over Campaign Mailers Was Not a SLAPP
(December 16, 2021)
‘First-to-File’
Rule Not Complete Bar to Second Fraud
Suit
(December 15, 2021)
$10.7
Million Judgment for Gender Violence,
Including $8 Million in Punitives,
Affirmed
(December 15, 2021)
School
Unaffiliated With Church May Bar Gay
Students
(December 14, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Dissenter Says En Banc Panel
Erred, Should Exercise Power to Rectify
(December 14, 2021)
Judge
Who Finds ADA Breach Can’t Dismiss Unruh
Claim
(December 13, 2021)
Turkish
Company Must Be Allowed Discovery In
Effort to Show Jurisdiction Lies in U.S.
(December 13, 2021)
Judge-Induced
Confusion Requires Invalidating 2013
Plea
(December 10, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Restores Suit Over Death of
Incarcerated Woman’s Newborn Baby
(December 10, 2021)
Law
School Attorney Attended Is Relevant to
Fee Award
(December 9, 2021)
Sole
Legal Custody Properly Shifted to Father
Based on Mother Blocking Visitation—C.A.
(December 9, 2021)
Suit
Restored Over Expulsion by UCLA of Ph.D.
Candidate
(December 8, 2021)
Taylor:
Court Institutes Normalization Plan
(December 8, 2021)
New
Effort Launched to Recall District
Attorney Gascón
(December 7, 2021)
Judge
Ito Spurns DA’s Entreaty to Vacate Death
Sentence
(December 6, 2021)
Same-Sex
Couple Not Denied Constitutional Rights
When Foster Child Was Taken From Their
Home
(December 6, 2021)
C.A.
Panel Questions Constitutionality of
SVPA Provision
(December 6, 2021)
Oakland’s
Suit Against NFL, Member Teams Properly
Axed
(December 3, 2021)
Surgeon
Loses Appeal That Was Founded on His
Admitted Ruse to Evade Taxes, Creditors
(December 3, 2021)
C.A.
Takes Expansive View of School
District’s Liability
(December 2, 2021)
No
Need for Arbitration Where Plaintiff
Denied Recollection of Signing Agreement
to Arbitrate
(December 2, 2021)
California’s
Large-Capacity Magazine Ban Is
Constitutional
(December 1, 2021)
$9.2
Million to Fund Temporary Judge Program
to Assist Los Angeles Superior Court
(December 1, 2021)
Agreement
to Arbitrate Pre-Trial Rows Broadly
Construed
(November 30, 2021)
Newsom
Appoints Three to L.A. Superior Court
(November 30,
2021)
‘Inventory
Search’ of Lawfully Parked Car Was
Pretextual
(November 29, 2021)
C.A.
Issues Opinion With No Reasons Stated
(November 29, 2021)
BIA
Must Consider Individualized Risk to
Asylum-Seekers
(November 24, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Vacates Dismissal of Lawsuit
Based on Week’s Delay in Filing Document
(November 24, 2021)
No
Cause of Action Lies Against Facebook
for Barring Posts
(November 23, 2021)
Judge’s
Failure to Look at File Requires Custody
Reversal
(November 22, 2021)
State
Bar Seizes Practice of Man Posing As
Lawyer
(November 22, 2021)
Court
Paves Way for Airing of Proposition 8
Trial Tapes
(November 19, 2021)
County
Must Turn Over 42,852 Emails Sought
Under PRA
(November 18, 2021)
C.A.
Won’t Decide Legality of Program
Providing Benefits to Illegal Aliens
(November 18, 2021)
DVPA
Petitioner Might Be Liable for Foe’s
Attorney Fees
(November 17, 2021)
Probation
Conditions May Not Be Amended to Permit
Amputee to Use Marijuana
(November 17, 2021)
Officers
Immune in Case of Not Summoning Medical
Aid
(November 16, 2021)
3,995
Applicants Pass July State Bar Exam
(November 16, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Restores Contest to $5 Million
Bond Order
(November 15, 2021)
Stinn
Appointed to L.A. Superior Court
(November 15, 2021)
No
Decision Is Reached on Gascón’s Hiring
Practices
(November 15, 2021)
City
Has Lesser Duty to Keep Alleys Safe for
Walking
(November 12, 2021)
C.A.
Affirms Murder Conviction of Man Who
Shot Friend in Head, Set Him on Fire
(November 12, 2021)
Judge
Ito Won’t Rubber-Stamp Gascón’s
Recommendation
(November 10, 2021)
Maintaining
Old Press Releases on Website Telling of
Crimes Doesn’t Invade Privacy
(November 10, 2021)
Cooley
Urges Judge Not to Relieve Slayer of
Death Sentence
(November 9, 2021)
Doctor’s
Minimal Aid to Alternate Juror Didn’t
Require Declaring Mistrial
(November 9, 2021)
Judge
May Not Base Fee Award on Previous
Awards to Firm
(November 8, 2021)
Civil
Code §48a Doesn’t Shield Publisher of
Website That Can’t Show Weekly Postings
(November 8, 2021)
Suit
Accusing Jack in the Box of ADA Breach
Properly Axed
(November 5, 2021)
DA’s
Office Centralizes Charge Evaluations
(November 5, 2021)
C.A.
Affirms Order Denying Emergency Release
of Juveniles
(November 4, 2021)
Beckloff
to Hear ‘Hot Potato’ Dispute Over DA’s
Practices
(November 3, 2021)
One-Year
Statute of Limitation Applied to
Slip-and-Fall in Hospital, C.A. Declares
(November 3, 2021)
C.A.
Broadly Construes Words ‘Sexual Conduct’
in Statutes
(November 2, 2021)
Person
Has No Privacy Right to Dictate What
Hospital Ambulance Is to Take Person
Undergoing Emergency
(November 2, 2021)
Venue
in Harassment Case Lies Where Defendant
Resides
(November 1, 2021)
Department
Store Chain Saks Is Not Entitled to
Attorney Fees in Dispute Over Rent—C.A.
(November 1, 2021)
Sentence of Con Man Who Preyed on
Elderly Is Affirmed
(October 29, 2021)
Kim
Tung, Former LACBA Barrister President,
Dies
(October 29, 2021)
MSJ
Properly Granted in Ex-Model’s Suit
Against Billionaire
(October 28, 2021)
Deputy
Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity in
Action Over Shooting of Man With Hands
Up
(October 28, 2021)
Suit
Revived Challenging Banquet-Brand’s
Website Claims
(October 27, 2021)
Putative
Class Action Against SeaWorld for
Alleged ‘Bilking’ Properly Dismissed
(October 27, 2021)
Action
Revived Against Medical Board for
Disability Bias
(October 26, 2021)
C.A.
Won’t Let Oxnard City Council Get by
With Political Maneuvering
(October 26, 2021)
Court
of Appeal Paves Way for Deported Felon
to Reenter U.S.
(October 25, 2021)
Panel
Reverses Judgment in Action by Inmate,
Finds Judge’s Reasoning Inconsistent
(October 25, 2021)
California
Has Personal Jurisdiction Over Visiting
Georgian
(October 22, 2021)
Lack
of Access to Library or Writing
Materials Entitled Inmate to Relief From
Default—C.A.
(October 22, 2021)
C.A.:
Judge’s Denial of Pre-Trial Diversion
Made No Sense
(October 22, 2021)
C.A.
Broadens Liability of Church for Priest
Misconduct
(October 21, 2021)
There’s
No ‘Prevailing Party’ Absent Judgment
(October 21, 2021)
College
Student Has No Absolute Right to Live
Testimony
(October 20, 2021)
Court
of Appeal Conceals Identity of Party
Identified in Previous Opinion in the
Case
(October 20, 2021)
Former
C.A. Clerk Lane Dies
(October 20, 2021)
Judge
Approves $5.7 Million Award of Fees,
Costs Against Uber
(October 19, 2021)
C.A.
Won’t Decide if CCP’s Cost Statute Must
Be Adhered to in Civil Restraining Order
Case
(October 19, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Judges Spar Over Citing
Unpublished Cases
(October 18, 2021)
LASC
Reports Nearly Total Compliance by
Employees With Inoculation Mandate
(October 18, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Won’t Countermand Order in Zoom
Case
(October 15, 2021)
Settlement
Between Victim, Culprit Is No Bar to
Further Criminal Restitution Order—C.A.
(October 15, 2021)
Woman
Had Standing to Renew Dead Mother’s
Judgment
(October 14, 2021)
Restitution
Properly Awarded Based Solely on
Victim’s Unsworn Statement to
Police—C.A.
(October 14, 2021)
Suit
Over Allegation That Video Game Champ
Cheated May Proceed
(October 13, 2021)
C.A.
Affirms Sentence of 396 Years to Life in
Prison
(October 13, 2021)
County
Counsel Need Not Process Facially
Invalid Initiative
(October 12, 2021)
False-Advertising
Suit Fails Where Companies Allegedly
Duped Disclaim Reliance on Ads
(October 12, 2021)
Judge
Acted Arbitrarily in Setting ADA
Attorney-Fee Award
(October 8, 2021)
Defendant
Was ‘Prevailing Party’ in Action Under
DVPA Where Plaintiff Dropped Case
(October 8, 2021)
Pain-Doctor
Must Stand Trial on Insurance Fraud
Counts
(October 7, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Upholds Law Under Which Some
Freelancers Are Now Employees
(October 7, 2021)
Restitution
Properly Based on Cost of New
Parts—Court of Appeal
(October 7, 2021)
California
Law Barring Private Prisons Must Be
Blocked
(October 6, 2021)
Self-Represented
Doctor, Who Is Not Lawyer, Can’t Gain
Relief Through Affidavit of Fault
(October 6, 2021)
State
Employee Had Right to Union Agent at
Strip Search
(October 5, 2021)
Disciplinary
Isolation in Jail Was Not Excuse For
Non-Participation in
‘Reunification’—C.A.
(October 5, 2021)
State’s
‘Stay-at-Home’ Order Didn’t Cause
Property ‘Loss
(October 4, 2021)
Judge
Kevin C. Brazile Under Consideration For
Appointment to Court of Appeal
(October 4, 2021)
Wrong
Standard Used in Administrative Mandamus
Cases
(October 1, 2021)
Time-Barred
Fraud Actions Can’t Be Converted Into
Contract Suits—C.A.
(October 1, 2021)
Oral
Pledge of Contingency Fee to In-House
Counsel Is Void
(September 30, 2021)
Appeals
Dismissed Based on ‘Disentitlement’
(September 30, 2021)
Lack
of Proximate Cause Bars Oakland’s Suit
Against Bank
(September 29, 2021)
Hathaway,
Hong, Moriarity Redesignated ‘Persons of
the Year’ for 2020/2021
(September 29, 2021)
Company
Must Pay $6.2 Million in Civil
Penalties—C.A.
(September 28, 2021)
Employer
Properly Fired Worker Upon Return From
Leave Based on Pre-Leave Deficiency
(September 28, 2021)
C.A.
Reins-In Actions Under Unruh Civil
Rights Act
(September 27, 2021)
Sexual-Misconduct
Allegations Made to CNN Mirroring Those
in Lawsuit Are Protected
(September 27, 2021)
Judges
Elect Sharona Bradford Superior Court
Commissioner
(September 27, 2021)
Pro
Per Attorney Can’t Recover Fees From
Common Fund
(September 24, 2021)
Services
Set for Attorney Edvin E. Minassian
(September 24, 2021)
‘Irrevocably’
Was Ambiguous Where Duration Not Stated
(September 23, 2021)
C.A.
Orders Publication of Decision on Access
by Public to Late-Filed Board Documents
(September 23, 2021)
C.A.
Justices Battle Over Ripeness of
Arbitration Appeal
(September 22, 2021)
Court
May Deny Delay of Hearing on Motion to
Suppress Even If Dismissal Likely Result
(September 22, 2021)
Justices
Differ Over Demurrers in Declaratory
Relief Actions
(September 21, 2021)
CCP
§998 Offer Is Not Unreasonable Based on
Same Offer Having Previously Been
Declined
(September 21, 2021)
C.A.
Reverses Murder Convictions Based on
Juror Exclusion
(September 20, 2021)
Misstating
Employer’s Name in Complaint Filed With
FEHA Was Immaterial—C.A.
(September 20, 2021)
D.A.s
Can’t Intervene in Challenge to
Execution Protocol
(September 17, 2021)
C.A.
Reverses Order Resentencing Triple
Slayer to LWOP
(September 17, 2021)
CCP
§998 Offer, to Be Valid, Must Tell How
to Accept—C.A.
(September 16, 2021)
First
Amendment Bars Liability of Persons Who
Orchestrated Picketing From Abroad
(September 16, 2021)
L.A.
Judge O’Gara Draws CJP’s Public
Admonishment
(September 15, 2021)
Right
of Confrontation Does Not Require Eye
Contact—C.A.
(September 14, 2021)
Sentence
of Seven Years, Fours Months for
83-Year-Old Not Cruel, Unusual Penalty
(September 14, 2021)
Employer
Duped by Job-Seeker Deserves Restitution
(September 14, 2021)
Exclusion
of One-Sentence Quote Triggers C.A.’s
Reversal
(September 13, 2021)
Order
to Attorney Not to File Complaint He
Drafted Is Not Protected Conduct
(September 13, 2021)
Court
of Appeal: Daniels’s Cancellation of
Appearance Wasn’t a Contractual Breach
(September 13, 2021)
Judge
Has Inherent Power to Bar Unmanageable
PAGA Suit
(September 10, 2021)
C.A.:
Agreement to Pay $225,000 in ‘New Money’
Doesn’t Allow for Crediting Sum Already
Paid
(September 10, 2021)
Biden
Nominates Three LASC Judges, Five
Others, to Courts
(September 9, 2021)
Interest
on Award of Attorney Fees Accrues Upon
Award of Fees, Not Entry of Judgment
(September 9, 2021)
C.A.
Faults Opinion on Investigation Duty of
Conservatee
(September 8, 2021)
Anti-Tracking
Law Invalidly Applied to Man Who Placed
Device on Car He Co-Owned
(September 8, 2021)
$250,000
Verdict Insufficient to Justify Fee
Award
(September 8, 2021)
C.A.:
Dissatisfaction Over Cake Isn’t a
‘Public Issue’
(September 7, 2021)
State
Bar Dues Bill Amended
(September 7, 2021)
Newsom
Appoints Six to L.A. Superior Court
(September 7, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Upholds Bar on Enforcing L.A.
City Ordinance
(September 3, 2021)
Former
Colleagues Tell of Fond Memories of
Retired LASC Judge Enrique Romero
(September 3, 2021)
Bail
Bond Company Can’t Appeal Error in
Ordering Summary Judgment Against It
(September 3, 2021)
Win
in Absence of Defendant Doesn’t
Constitute ‘Default’
(September 2, 2021)
Man
Who, at Age 22, Slayed Victim, Sentenced
to LWOP, Properly Denied Youth Hearing
(September 2, 2021)
Proviso
Vesting Attorney With Power to Settle Is
Invalid
(September 1, 2021)
Plaintiffs
Lack Standing in Action to Bar Claims
Made for Classic Coca-Cola
(September 1, 2021)
New
Insurance Statutes Apply to Policies
Already in Effect
(August 31, 2021)
Cooley
Raps Gascón Over His Amicus Brief in
Supreme Court in Support of Defendant
(August 31, 2021)
Restrictions
Imposed on Entering Spring Street
Courthouse
(August 31, 2021)
Instagram
Ads Aimed at U.S. Create Jurisdiction
Over Foreign Company
(August 30, 2021)
Restraining
Order May Be Based on Pattern of Insults
Using Foul Language, C.A. Rules
(August 30, 2021)
Disbarred
Lawyer Layfield Found Guilty of Multiple
Felonies
(August 30, 2021)
Jury
Unanimity Not Required on Aggravating
Circumstances
(August 27, 2021)
Father
May Not Use Marijuana to Kill Pain
Though No Link Between Use of It,
Violence
(August 27, 2021)
C.A.
Restricts Sending of Agenda-Item
Materials to Board
(August 26, 2021)
Preliminary
Injunction Properly Denied in Challenge
to L.A.’s Evictions Moratorium
(August 26, 2021)
No
Liability Based on Not Locking Up Gun
That Was Stolen
(August 25, 2021)
No
Royalties Under California Law for
Playing Pre-1972 Songs on Sirius XM
(August 24, 2021)
C.A.
Justice Menetrez Seeks Transfer to L.A.
(August 24, 2021)
Judge
Has Immunity Even If He Authorized
Excessive Force
(August 23, 2021)
Granting
Compassionate Release for Father Not a
Basis for Releasing Co-Defendant Son
(August 23, 2021)
C.A.’s
Attempt to Expand ‘Privette
Doctrine’ Is Rejected
(August 20, 2021)
Affirmative
Defense Cannot Be Stricken Under
Anti-SLAPP Statute—C.A.
(August 20, 2021)
LAX-Based
Employees Don’t Get Pay for Security
Waits
(August 20, 2021)
Person
Convicted Under ‘Provocative
Act Doctrine’ Not Entitled to
Resentencing Consideration—C.A.
(August 20, 2021)
VanDyke
Slams Fletcher and Visiting Jurist Over
Opinion
(August 19, 2021)
Plaintiffs
Alleging Electronic Spying on Citizens
Failed to Establish Standing
(August 19, 2021)
Evidence
Properly Barred in Response to §425.16
Motion
(August 18, 2021)
C.A.
Orders Remand for Second Time in Case
Where Faretta Right Was Denied Mid-Trial
(August 18, 2021)
Riverside
Appeals Division Opinion Clashes With
L.A. Ruling
(August 17, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Judge Suggests Reexamination of
Vicarious Liability Rule in Criminal
Cases
(August 17, 2021)
Employee
of Fannie Mae Is ‘Public Official,’
Boosting Sentence
(August 16, 2021)
Taxpayer
Can’t Obtain Refund Through Writ Relief
(August 16, 2021)
Marijuana
Possession in Prison Not Legalized by
Proposition 64
(August 13, 2021)
State
Judges to Receive Automatic Pay Boosts
(August 13, 2021)
Cooley,
Others Urge Bonta to Exercise Control
Over Gascón
(August 12, 2021)
LAPD
Officer Fired for Lying Loses Bid for
Reinstatement
(August 11, 2021)
Ninth
Circuit Says Robocall Ban Has Broad
Scope
(August 11, 2021)
Judge’s
Order to Oust County Lawmaker
Automatically Stayed
(August 10, 2021)
Juvenile
Offender Can’t Be Ordered to Pay for
Domestic Violence Prevention
Program—C.A.
(August 10, 2021)
C.A.
Broadens Liability for Negligent
Entrustment, Hiring
(August 9, 2021)
Lost
C.A. Opinion Is Found, Potentially
Inuring to Benefit of Petitioning Inmate
(August 9, 2021)
C.A.
Restores Malpractice Suit by Widow of
One-Time NBC CEO
(August 6, 2021)
Vaccinations
to Be Mandated for LASC Employees
(August 6, 2021)
Hearing
Set on Motion to Recuse DA’s Office
(August 6, 2021)
Prosecutor
Is on Public Defender’s Payroll, Motion
Says
(August 5, 2021)
Legislation
on Recall Elections Validly Applied to
Recall Effort Already in Progress, C.A.
Holds
(August 5, 2021)
Murderer’s
Imprisonment for 48 Years-Plus Was
Excessive
(August 4, 2021)
Court
in §1983 Action May Award Damages for
Decedent’s Suffering of ‘Loss of Life’
(August 4, 2021)
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