The Court of Appeal affirmed the denial of Del Frisco’s motion to compel arbitration. It agreed that the agreement’s scope and duration were unconscionable, additionally found a lack of mutuality, and upheld the refusal to sever the offending terms.
The court granted the plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis and found her Social Security complaint satisfied the pleading requirements of the Supplemental Rules for Social Security Actions Under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).
A federal magistrate judge screened the pro se, in forma pauperis complaint of a former project superintendent and found that his Title VII religious discrimination and retaliation allegations against his former employer failed to state any cognizable claim, giving him thirty days to amend or stand
A federal district court adopted a magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations and dismissed a former state prisoner’s habeas petition without prejudice because he failed to pay the filing fee, seek in forma pauperis status, or otherwise respond to the court’s order.
The district court adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations and dismissed a state prisoner’s § 2254 habeas petition without prejudice because he failed to file an amended petition after being warned that dismissal could result.
The Eastern District of California granted a habeas petition and ordered the immediate release of a noncitizen held in civil immigration detention for over three months without a bond hearing, finding the government could not invoke mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c) because the Notice to
A federal magistrate judge ordered the respondent to report Yaquin Ponce Aguirre’s custody status within five days after returned mail and an empty ICE detainee-locator search raised the possibility that his immigration-detention habeas petition had become moot.
The Sixth District Court of Appeal denied a writ petition challenging a trial court’s determination that a settlement between a former executive and investment entities was in good faith under Code of Civil Procedure section 877.6, finding no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s anal
The Sixth District Court of Appeal held that a debt buyer’s compliance with identity-theft collection procedures did not eliminate liability under California’s Identity Theft Act, but modified the judgment to remove $251 in mileage and parking expenses incurred while meeting with counsel
The Sixth Appellate District affirmed the denial of Wang and Li’s special motion to strike because Louis Wang’s cursory, private warnings to a rival bidder neither contributed to public discourse nor were made in connection with an ongoing or immediately pending official proceeding.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the juvenile court’s denial of a criminal defense attorney’s petition on behalf of his client to access a minor’s confidential dependency case file, holding the appeal failed on three independent grounds: the appellant challenged only th
A federal magistrate judge denied and dismissed with prejudice an ICE detainee’s habeas corpus petition challenging his continued detention and ordered entry of judgment, finding the immigration judge’s flight risk determination was not an abuse of discretion under the deferential standa
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This was a final district-court order granting habeas relief and denying the temporary restraining order as moot.
A California federal court conditionally granted Rafael Jimenez-Godinez’s habeas petition, requiring his release within seven days unless he receives a prompt custody-redetermination hearing before an immigration judge.