First District grants writ relief in part, holding the school district is immune under Education Code section 44808 for the death damages tied to a student’s off-campus suicide during winter break, but allowing the parents’ survival claim for on-campus harm to proceed.
Los Angeles Appellate Division affirms an unlawful-detainer judgment against a resident manager whose tenancy was tied to her employment, holding the Tenant Protection Act’s 60-day notice and just-cause requirements do not apply where housing was provided as employment compensation under a wri
The court issued a limited stay of a federal misclassification class action against Assurance IQ and Prudential pending a preliminary settlement approval ruling in an earlier-filed and substantially similar state-court class action whose proposed class includes the federal plaintiff.
After previously certifying a class of California bus driver/operator employees of Transdev for wage-and-hour claims, the court reversed course and decertified the class in light of multiple overlapping earlier-filed state-court class actions, then stayed the case to allow those proceedings to advan
Fourth District grants writ relief, holding that an Orange County trial court applied the wrong legal standard and relied on findings unsupported by substantial evidence when denying mental-health pretrial diversion to a defendant diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
The court dismissed without leave to amend a §1983 suit against a senior deputy clerk of the California Court of Appeal who allegedly refused filings, yelled, and issued unauthorized orders, ruling that quasi-judicial immunity bars damages claims and that §1983 itself bars injunctive relief against
Magistrate Judge Hixson denies the motion to dismiss filed by Judang Team LLC, Perfeos LLC, Jot & Journeys, and their Florida-based founder Antonio Jose Liévano in Meta’s suit alleging an interconnected deceptive advertising scheme that improperly obtained advertising credit lines from Meta.
Central District of California remands a pro se eye-injury suit against Amazon, holding that even allegations of permanent blindness — without quantification of damages — cannot satisfy the $75,000 amount-in-controversy requirement, and denies the plaintiff’s motion for sanctions.
Fourth District reverses denial of a preliminary injunction by a licensed sidewalk vendor against the City of San Diego, holding that at least two of the City’s vending ordinances — covering impoundment of merchandise and operating-hour restrictions — directly conflict with state sidewalk-vend
In an APA challenge to ICE’s withdrawal of the school’s certification to enroll foreign students, the magistrate judge refused to compel the agency to add documents to the administrative record or to allow a deposition of the deciding official, ruling that the school’s claims of mi