The Ninth Circuit reverses summary judgment for Orange County on a Monell claim and vacates a jury verdict for a jail nurse, finding the trial court’s rigid three-hour time limit prevented the plaintiff from presenting his case after a stroke was misidentified as intoxication during booking.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for a law firm accused of conspiring with a private judge who failed to disclose multiple concurrent retentions, but a concurrence warned that private judging creates growing ethical risks that state courts should address.
Fourth District holds that a property company’s declaratory relief claim challenging tax assessments arose from the county assessor’s protected speech and petitioning under the anti-SLAPP statute, reversing the trial court’s denial of the county’s motion to strike.
Second District reverses $19,285 in sanctions because the movant’s notice of motion lacked a hearing date, holding that LA County’s electronic filing system does not excuse noncompliance with section 128.7’s mandatory safe harbor provisions.
Second District affirms summary judgment for LAUSD in a COVID-19 vaccine mandate challenge after school safety officers forfeited their appeal by failing to cite any record evidence in their opening brief.
Ninth Circuit affirms the Central District of California’s refusal to dismiss an illegal reentry charge under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d), holding that even assuming ineffective immigration counsel, the defendant’s extensive criminal record and lack of rehabilitation made it implausible that he w
The Ninth Circuit affirms a Central District of California grant of summary judgment to the Secretary of the Air Force on a federal civilian employee’s discrimination and hostile work environment claims, restating the demanding ‘specific and substantial’ pretext standard on circums
The Fifth District holds that Penal Code section 1172.75(f) excludes from resentencing only inmates who were both convicted of a sexually violent offense and sentenced to death or LWOP — reopening SB 483 resentencing for many lifers.
The Ninth Circuit holds that DHS is not constitutionally required to translate the entirety of a Notice to Appear — including the obligation to update one’s address with the immigration court — into the alien’s native language.
The Ninth Circuit holds that federal kidnapping under 18 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1) can be committed by deception alone, but vacates the murder-kidnapping conviction because the trial judge improperly coerced a unanimous verdict from a deadlocked jury.