(Subscription required) In long-cause family disputes, Kim pushes litigants past broad goals to workable orders, aiming to deliver lasting resolutions for families. 

(Subscription required) A Los Angeles judge allows the State Bar's claims against its exam vendor to proceed while rejecting a test taker's bid to join the case.

Passed by the California legislature in 2022, the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act creates civil court proceedings, also known as CARE court, that can provide support for certain adults with severe mental illnesses. In San Joaquin County, Judge Jayne Lee finds that human connection and patience are key tools in the success of CARE court.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a motion to compel arbitration filed by a car manufacturer, in a certified class action asserting violations of California’s lemon law, was properly denied where the defendant was not a party to the dealership contract containing the agreement to arbitrate, with the panel declining to find that a “delegation clause” providing that an arbitrator is to decide questions of validity forecloses the result.