Fourth District holds that Penal Code section 29820’s firearm prohibition for certain juvenile wards until age 30 is facially constitutional under both the Second Amendment Bruen framework and the Due Process Clause.
Fifth District holds that Penal Code section 292’s definitions of ‘acts of violence’ and ‘great bodily harm’ are constitutional under California Constitution article I, section 12, and that a no-bail order in a serious child sexual abuse case was supported by clear and
First District grants writ requiring West Contra Costa Unified School District to comply with statutory teacher hiring procedures before invoking impossibility to defend its use of rolling and unauthorized substitutes.
Second District reverses denial of class certification in a Red Roof Inn 28-day shuffle case, holding that Civil Code section 1940.1 does not require each class member to prove individualized use of the hotel as their primary residence.
Fifth District holds that the mere presence of peace officers attempting a routine traffic stop is not the ‘objective correlate’ required to support an imperfect self-defense instruction for a defendant whose only basis for self-defense was a delusion.
First District holds that the DMV’s revised hearing structure satisfies due process and rejects the broader ‘appearance of bias’ approach used in Romane v. DMV (now before the California Supreme Court).
Third District affirms denial of an anti-SLAPP motion in a CSU professor retaliation case, holding that claims based ‘in part’ on communications with another university do not arise from protected activity when other unprotected employment decisions also support the claim.
Fourth District holds that a guarantor’s procedural dismissal of an arbitration confirmation petition for lack of personal jurisdiction did not make him the prevailing party on the contract for attorney fees but did entitle him to costs.
Fourth District holds that the State Fund rule applies when a law firm receives privileged emails that a former executive improperly took from the company, and reverses the trial court’s denial of disqualification motions.
Second District reverses first and second degree murder convictions because the trial court abused its discretion in excluding under Evidence Code section 352 a contemporaneous handwritten note relevant to the defendant’s provocation defense.