The Fourth DCA affirmed that a city’s code violation liens recorded after a lis pendens was filed were not entitled to foreclosure surplus funds, holding the city was not a ‘subordinate lienholder’ under section 45.032 because its liens were extinguished by the foreclosure sale.
The Commonwealth Court vacated a PUC declaratory order that assigned Conrail responsibility for Delair Bridge drainage maintenance over I-95, holding that the 1966 PUC order’s plain text assigned that duty to PennDOT and that the PUC’s Oxford comma-based reasoning was clearly erroneous.
The Georgia Court of Appeals partially reversed a child custody modification order, holding that the trial court could not alter legal custody — including decision-making authority over religion and extracurricular activities — after expressly finding no material change in circumstances, while affirming changes to parenting time.
Ninth Circuit suspends two Orange County attorneys for six months after they filed briefs with AI-generated fake case citations and repeatedly denied the use of generative AI to the court.
Ninth Circuit revives a Section 1983 deliberate fabrication claim against a Garden Grove detective whose police report significantly mischaracterized recorded witness statements on a critical issue in the case.
Connecticut Appellate Court reverses a trial court’s award of attorney’s fees under the quiet title statute, holding that § 47-31(e) authorizes only statutory costs—not counsel fees—in favor of a disclaiming defendant, consistent with the American rule.
Connecticut Appellate Court holds that the litigation privilege bars an IIED claim arising from an allegedly fraudulent probate conservatorship proceeding, ruling that downstream out-of-court conduct taken pursuant to conservator authority obtained in the proceeding cannot be carved out as independently actionable.
Connecticut Appellate Court reverses a $42 million verdict against a product shipper, holding that a warehouse worker’s catastrophic injuries from falling unsecured freight were not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the shipper’s failure to stretch-wrap a pallet.
Connecticut Appellate Court affirms dismissal of a neighbor fence dispute, holding the claim was moot because the fence was already built and the complaint failed to allege specific damage required for the private zoning enforcement exception.
The California Court of Appeal held that a final judgment in a water district’s validation action bars a ratepayer’s later class action and mandamus petition challenging the same water rates under Proposition 218, even where the ratepayer received only notice by publication.