(Subscription required) While Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl's decisions do not determine liability, they ensure that the social media companies will be able to argue immunity, free-speech protection and fault apportionment to jurors.

The Sixth District Court of Appeal has held that an anti-SLAPP motion was correctly granted in a case in which a man who is confined to a wheelchair was allegedly threatened by a police officer with arrest if he did not leave a post office where he was attempting to file a complaint based on what he contended was disability discrimination by the Postal Service.

(Subscription required) The Commission on Judicial Performance found that Superior Court Judge Susanne Rizo submitted complaints about the court's executive officer and its operation manager "without a good faith basis and that there was no colorable argument" that the two had, as Rizo alleged, practiced law without a license.

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has overturned two attempted murder convictions due to prosecutorial misconduct by a Los Angeles deputy district attorney who improperly suggested to the jury that the defendant hired lawyers to help him get away with the crime and commented on the accused’s failure to raise his defense earlier by testifying at the preliminary hearing, drawing dissent as to whether the remarks require reversal.