The Ninth Circuit affirms a preliminary injunction against a trademark licensee who claimed priority rights, holding that a licensee’s use of marks inures to the licensor under the Lanham Act and that later rescission of the licensing agreement does not retroactively change trademark priority.
In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit remands an asylum case to the BIA after finding it failed to address substantial evidence that a Mexican woman’s family membership was a central reason for persecution by cartel-linked neighbors.
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First District affirms bail bond forfeiture, holding that a trial court’s on-the-record acknowledgment of an off-the-record explanation for a defendant’s nonappearance suffices to retain jurisdiction over the bond under Penal Code section 1305.1.
Second District holds that an employee’s erratic and irrational behavior at work — including statements about killing his stepmother and inanimate objects laughing at him — did not charge employer with knowledge of a mental disability under FEHA, because disability was not the ‘only reas
Fourth District affirms that People failed to prove teenage accomplice guilty of murder under current law at section 1172.6 evidentiary hearing, but remands to redesignate his manslaughter conviction as attempted robbery rather than dismissing the case entirely.
Sixth District holds that an electric bicycle is not a ‘motor vehicle’ under the Vehicle Code, and the DMV cannot suspend a rider’s driver’s license for refusing a blood-alcohol test after being stopped while riding an e-bike under the influence.
Ninth Circuit holds that an automobile manufacturer that was not a party to a consumer’s lease agreement with a dealership cannot enforce the lease’s arbitration or delegation clause, reaffirming Kramer v. Toyota and applying the California Supreme Court’s Ford Motor Warranty Cases
Ninth Circuit vacates a Northern District of California ruling that found fluoride in drinking water at 0.7 mg/L poses unreasonable health risks, holding the judge violated the party presentation principle by commandeering the evidentiary record over both parties’ objections.