(Subscription required) Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Kinna Patel Crocker, whose first courtroom experience came at her own citizenship ceremony as a teen, now presides with a settlement-first philosophy shaped by her family law background. 

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a consolidated complaint asserted against the largest television, film, and radio performers’ union over the organization’s negotiation and execution of a return-to-work agreement with media studios in 2021, requiring members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to secure industry jobs.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a District Court judge who found that a health-care insurer furnished an inadequate explanation for declining to pay for procedures to repair the hiatal hernias of two insureds, but nonetheless ruled that the company’s decision did not constitute an abuse of discretion, erred procedurally.

A judgment of the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming was improperly entered by the Los Angeles Superior Court, Div. Two of the Court of Appeal for this district declared yesterday.