(Subscription required) Legal advocates warn that increased enforcement and a lack of legal representation are placing vulnerable immigrants in a bind--with high-stakes consequences for those who fail to appear.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

The Dominguez Firm—widely touted on bus ads and on billboards—will probably lose on the merits in a malicious prosecution action brought by a business that was sued by the lawyers on behalf of a woman who claimed to have been wrongfully terminated even though she had signed a paper saying she was voluntarily resigning, the Court of Appeal for this district held yesterday, affirming the denial of an anti-SLAPP motion.

Denying a defendant the opportunity to call and cross-examine witnesses in a hearing on a petition to renew a workplace restraining order was harmless error where the petition was based on the same evidence as the final order in the original case and other testimony offered was irrelevant to the determination of whether the request should be granted, the Fifth District Court of Appeal held yesterday.