The California Supreme Court holds that requesters under the California Public Records Act can sometimes obtain declaratory relief even after the agency has produced everything responsive, but the statute does not impose a three-year duty to preserve records the agency has withheld as exempt.
Central District of California denies remand of a misappropriation-of-likeness suit, holding that a plaintiff’s rejection of a $75,001 settlement offer is an “other paper” that started the 30-day removal clock and itself proved the amount in controversy.
Judge Breyer enters a third federal pre-filing order against pro se serial litigant Kuang-Bao Paul Ou-Young, requiring him to obtain advance leave of court before filing further in propria persona suits against the U.S. District Court Clerk of Court Mark Busby or any employee of the U.S. Attorney’s
The court dismissed a pro se tenant’s Fair Housing Act sex-discrimination and § 1985 civil-rights conspiracy claims against the owners and managers of her San Diego apartment building, finding her allegations of gender-based animus conclusory and contradicted by her own pleading.
The court granted habeas relief and ordered immediate release of a Cuban national who had been paroled into the United States and then re-detained at a master calendar hearing without the written notice of parole termination required by 8 C.F.R. § 212.5(e)(5) or any opportunity to be heard.
Fourth District grants writ relief, holding that a curative class-action notice informing putative class members they may revoke individual settlement agreements must also tell them California rescission statutes require return of the settlement payment.
Third District affirms denial of Vallejo’s CEQA writ challenge to American Canyon’s certification of an EIR for a 2.6-million-square-foot warehouse complex, holding the EIR’s water-supply analysis adequately addressed reasonably foreseeable demand under CEQA and the Water Code.
Second District denies Microsoft’s writ petition challenging a court-issued nondisclosure order that barred Microsoft from notifying its enterprise customer, USC, that the LAPD had served a search warrant on a USC graduate student’s email account.
First District affirms judgment for the City and County of San Francisco in a FEHA age-discrimination challenge to the City’s two-formula disability-retirement scheme, finding the City’s pension structure did not violate FEHA.
Central District of California denies remand of a Chevrolet Silverado lemon-law case, holding that civil penalties for an alleged willful Song-Beverly violation count toward the federal amount-in-controversy requirement and that the manufacturer need not prove willfulness to invoke that calculation.