An anti-abortion activist, who bumped into an employee of a Redlands-based clinic with his stomach during efforts to block her from interrupting a conversation between another protestor and a potential client outside the gated premises, was properly subjected to a workplace violence restraining order requiring him to stay 100 yards away from the facility for three years, the Third District Court of Appeal held yesterday.

Failure of arbitrators to make certain a proceeding was being electronically recorded, coupled with their alleged incessant interruptions of the plaintiff, did not require that a District Court judge vacate an award, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday, affirming the judgment.

(Subscription required) John Shepard Wiley Jr., the associate justice of the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Eight, is a prose pro. The former Los Angeles County Superior Court judge appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the Second District in 2018 writes with a strong voice, eschews footnotes and champions succinctness. 

(Subscription required) California’s state bar over the last two weeks has filed disciplinary charges against two lawyers—and reached a settlement with a third—accused of submitting false, AI-generated content in court filings. The state bar announced Monday that prosecutors are pursuing related charges against two additional attorneys.