The former executive director of the State Bar of California should receive a short suspension for misrepresentations that he made to the state bar's board of trustees about funding for a trip to Mongolia, according to a review panel of the State Bar Court of California.

The California Supreme Court held yesterday that an elected official may not invoke a provision of the Labor Code that prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee who blows the whistle on wrongdoing, saying that the language and legislative history of the provision make clear that such officeholders are excluded from coverage.

Div. Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that the defendant in a civil enforcement action may depose the prosecuting agency’s representative—but only if there’s a showing of “extremely good cause.”

The California Supreme Court held yesterday that a provision allowing for the vacatur of forfeiture of bail if a bond company detains a fugitive defendant on foreign soil and prosecutors decline to bring him to the U.S. does not authorize a court to read into the law a rule compelling the agency to make an extradition decision by the deadline for such motions, even if the law for the loss of funds due to indecision.