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  • C.A. Declares Statute of Frauds Applies to Implied, Oral Joint Venture Agreements

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    March 18, 2026

    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.

  • Sacramento's new $515 million courthouse begins phased opening this month

    Sacramento Business Journal
    March 5, 2026

    By the end of this month, the new Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye Sacramento Superior Courthouse at 500 G St. will start seeing some initial relocation of select administrative officers and court functions move over from existing court sites, court officials announced in a release Thursday. The court is expected to be fully open by the end of April.

    Related: ABC 10

  • Lawsuit Asserting Public Fraud by Big Pharma Is Revived

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    March 18, 2026

    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.

  • Lawyer Not ‘Ineffective’ While ‘Suspended’ for Trust Reports

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    March 17, 2026

    Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial attorney is not rendered “ineffective” due to the imposition of a “temporary suspension” of his license to practice law for purported noncompliance with the State Bar’s relatively new client trust account reporting requirements.

  • Good-Faith Exception to Warrant Necessity Applied to Search of Cellphone—C.A.

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    March 17, 2026

    Suppression of the fruits of a warrantless search of cellphone was not required where the device had belonged to a man who had been slain and police officers believed that the decedent’s mother now owned the instrument and that her consent sufficed, the Sixth District Court of Appeal has held.

  • Inside Sacramento’s new $514 million high-rise courthouse set to open in weeks

    Sacramento Bee
    March 17, 2026

    The latest addition to the Sacramento skyline may also be its most anticipated: a gleaming 18-story courthouse with 53 courtrooms and 540,000 square feet of real estate to replace an aging downtown courthouse long regarded as undersized, unsafe, overcrowded and obsolete.

  • Judge halts RFK Jr.’s vaccine overhaul, citing flawed process

    The Washington Post
    March 16, 2026

    A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from implementing sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood immunization schedule, siding with major medical organizations that argue Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unlawfully altered vaccine policy and improperly reconstituted a federal vaccine advisory panel.

    Related: Associated Press