A family court abused its discretion by dismissing a DVRO petition for calendar-management reasons and ending temporary protection without notice.
California’s ALPR statute requires a plaintiff to show actual harm caused by a violation; a technical violation and subjective privacy concern are not enough.
Strict liability for loss of lateral support requires excavation, and a joint section 998 offer cannot shift expert fees without a proven unity of interest.
The Ninth Circuit held that age-based asylum groups are immutable as a matter of law and ordered the BIA to reconsider the applicant’s claims.
California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal holds that orders authorizing lis pendens recordings in probate proceedings are not appealable—the exclusive remedy is a petition for writ of mandate filed within 20 days of the order.
The Fifth District Court of Appeal holds that courts may rely on all content in a preliminary hearing transcript—including officer-relayed hearsay under Proposition 115—when screening Penal Code § 1172.6 resentencing petitions at the prima facie stage.
A divided Ninth Circuit holds that police executing a computer search warrant must stop searching when evidence they discover negates the probable cause underlying the warrant—and that the good-faith exception does not save evidence found after probable cause dissolves.
The First District Court of Appeal held that California’s Insurance Commissioner regulation permitting auto insurers to use marital status as an optional rating factor remains valid despite the 2005 amendment to the Unruh Civil Rights Act adding marital status as a protected characteristic.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal held that California’s criminal discovery statute (Penal Code § 1054.3(b)(1)) does not authorize a trial court to compel a defendant seeking pretrial mental health diversion to undergo a prosecution mental examination, because the diversion hearing is not a
The California Supreme Court held that a restitution order is appropriate in attorney discipline cases where an attorney’s intentional, fraudulent misconduct caused direct financial harm to a non-client, correcting a State Bar Court misreading of prior precedent that had treated tort-based dam
The California Supreme Court held that when plaintiffs voluntarily dismiss their action before any of their claims have been finally resolved by the trial court, the dismissal terminates the action and forfeits the right to appeal — it does not create an appealable judgment even if the stated purpos
The Ninth Circuit denied panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in a Second Amendment challenge to California’s switchblade knife regulations, leaving intact a panel ruling that California’s ban on the concealed carry of switchblade knives survives a facial constitutional challenge under
California’s Second District Court of Appeal affirmed that placing child-luring offenders in the lifetime sex offender registration tier does not violate equal protection, because the Legislature could rationally find that the predatory, premeditated nature of luring crimes signals a higher ri
The Ninth Circuit reversed dismissal of a False Claims Act qui tam suit alleging PPP fraud by a California mortgage company, holding that a NAICS industry code alone does not publicly disclose fraud and that a company’s own website does not qualify as ‘news media’ for purposes of t
California’s First District Court of Appeal reversed a trial court that had refused to compel arbitration, holding that Cruise’s mobile app sign-in screen gave an injured employee-rider sufficiently conspicuous notice of the arbitration clause in its Terms of Service, and that GM’s
California’s Second District Court of Appeal held that a spouse’s trust revocation during pending divorce proceedings is valid even though it was never filed with the court, as long as the other spouse received actual notice of the revocation as required by the trust instrument.
The Ninth Circuit vacated a $40 million jury verdict for semiconductor component maker Comet Technologies and ordered a new trial after finding that the district court erroneously placed the burden of proving “ready ascertainability” of alleged trade secrets on XP Power rather than on Co
A California Court of Appeal holds that writing “Loss is ongoing” with no dates or date ranges on a government claim form does not substantially comply with Government Code section 910, barring the claimants’ suit against a public agency.
The Second District Court of Appeal upholds California’s ban on carrying concealed dirks and daggers as facially constitutional under the Supreme Court’s Bruen text-and-history test, pointing to a robust historical tradition of concealed-weapons prohibitions.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal clarifies that a school district’s immunity under Education Code section 44808 depends on where the district’s negligent act occurred — not where the student was ultimately injured — overruling two of its own prior decisions in the process.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal, on remand from the California Supreme Court, holds that a trial court ordering pretrial detention must make an express finding by clear and convincing evidence that no less restrictive condition than incarceration will adequately protect public safety — “balancin
The Ninth Circuit holds that an ADA plaintiff who obtains a default judgment and injunction requiring a Fontana Family Dollar to fix accessibility barriers is a “prevailing party” entitled to seek attorney’s fees — even though the injunction only requires what federal law already mandates.
The Ninth Circuit affirms a preliminary injunction blocking FinCEN’s “Border GTO” — which required money services businesses in 30 southwest border ZIP codes to file cash-transaction reports for amounts as low as $200 — finding the order was likely a rule requiring notice-and-comment rulemaking and
A California appellate court sanctioned an attorney $1,500 for AI-generated fabricated case quotations and held that contractual “attorneys’ fees” clauses presumptively include separately billed paralegal time.