The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a judgment in favor of a company against its former vice president/general counsel requiring that the defendant repay the entire amount he received for his services over a 14-month period, the damages being based on his post-termination conduct including representation of a vendor of his ex-employer in connection with a dispute over an agreement he had negotiated.

A mother’s gifts totaling more than $1.8 million over a 10-year period did not constitute “income” to be taken into account in assessing child support to be paid to be paid to the daughter by her ex-husband because the payments were not steady and certain ones, the Court of Appeal for this district has held, adding that an order that “huge” sums be returned to the former spouse was improper because woman doesn’t have the money.

The California Supreme Court held yesterday that a pair of plaintiffs who filed a voluntary dismissal of their complaint after a trial judge sustained a demurrer, with leave to amend, as to some of their causes of action forfeited their right to appeal because the order at issue did not finally dispose of any of their claims.

Two defendants in unrelated criminal proceedings, each seeking a mental health diversion, have persuaded Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal that the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office does not have the right, under a discovery statute, to an order compelling a mental examination.