The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a District Court judge properly dismissed, without leave to amend, a putative class action complaint alleging violations of California consumer protection laws by the The Brita Products Company based on labels on filters promising “healthier” water while asserting that the products fail to remove the presence of common contaminants like arsenic and certain so-called “forever chemicals.”

Judicial Council members will consider a new rule at their April 24 business meeting that would require courts to report civil arrests—such as those related to federal immigration enforcement actions—that happen in superior court facilities.

A defendant who was convicted of exchanging sexually explicit electronic messages with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl—but was actually a vice detective—was wrongfully put to the choice of waiving his entrapment defense or having his conviction of a sex offense 50 years earlier brought up, Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has reversed an order denying an anti-SLAPP motion brought by Orange County in response to a suit by a private company that runs a housing project and is seeking a declaration that it is immune from taxes on the ground that an exempt local joint-powers authority, with which it works, owns the real property.