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
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.
Fifth District holds that grand jury transcripts and police reports are not within section 1172.6(d)(3)’s hearsay exception and were inadmissible at the petitioner’s section 1172.6 evidentiary hearing, vacating the denial and remanding for a new hearing.
Second District holds the California State University has a duty under HEERA to bargain over reasonably foreseeable effects of its 2023 student-vaccine policy on faculty health, but vacates PERB’s violation finding because there was no substantial evidence CSU had implemented the policy or def
Iowa’s Attorney General sued TikTok over what she alleges are deceptive ’12+’ age ratings in the Apple App Store. A unanimous Iowa Supreme Court held that TikTok’s contractual relationships with hundreds of thousands of Iowa users, plus its targeted advertising and Iowa-speci
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.
The court denied without prejudice an Armenian asylum-seeker’s habeas petition challenging his post-removal-order detention while ICE seeks a third country to receive him, ruling that he had been detained less than six months and was still within Zadvydas’s presumptively reasonable remov
Central District of California denies remand and dismisses California FEHA discrimination claims brought by a Tennessee-based remote worker for Karl Storz, holding that FEHA reaches only employees whose situs of employment or material elements of the cause of action are substantially connected to Ca
Central District of California denies remand of a wrongful-termination suit by a former Walmart warehouse worker who took medical leave for cancer treatment, holding that lost wages alone — calculated as 2.5 years of back pay plus 2.5 years of front pay — exceed the federal $75,000 amount-in-controv
After granting the plaintiff’s request to proceed without paying the filing fee, the court dismissed her five-sentence complaint alleging RICO and due-process violations against a single defendant for failure to state a plausible claim and noted serious doubts about whether venue was proper in