A judge properly ordered that victims of a massive Ponzi scheme who obtained judgments on which they were unable to collect be paid from the Victims of Corporate Fraud Compensation Fund, Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday, rejecting the argument by the Office of Secretary of State that the claims are invalid because the underlying lawsuit was time-barred.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that Apple Pay, a mobile payment service which allows users to transfer funds without physical cards or cash, is a “financial account” within the meaning of an exclusion from probationary search terms and, as such, a motion to traverse a warrant, that sought records from bank accounts only discovered by clicking on an app on the probationer’s phone, should have been granted.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday resurrected a qui tam lawsuit filed by a California-based health care provider against multiple pharmaceutical companies seeking damages allegedly due to the state and federal governments for what the plaintiff claims was a scheme to fraudulently overcharge for drugs to recoup inflated prices from entitlement systems while utilizing a program designed to keep charges down for low-income patients.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a purported oral or implied joint venture agreement must be in writing in order to be enforced if the contractual terms cannot be performed within one year from its asserted inception.