Div. Seven of the Court of Appeal for this district has rejected the contention of a lessor that although a tenant missed a rent payment for January 2023 and paid less than half of the amount due the following month, a three-day notice to quit or pay rent served on Feb. 12, 2025 was not invalidated by the one-year requirement in light of a lease provision that any payment that was made would be applied to the earliest ligation.

Div. Two of this district’s Court of Appeal has upheld an order granting a special motion to strike a complaint filed by the 25-time Grammy-Award winning rapper Shawn Carter—who performs under the name “Jay-Z”—that accuses a Texas law firm of attempting to extort the artist.

The Court of Appeal for this district has reversed an order denying an anti-SLAPP motion in an action by a man who was producer/creator/writer of children’s television programs who claims to have been falsely portrayed, by implication, as a sexual child abuser in a five-part documentary, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” aired in 2024 on Warner Brothers’ Investigation Discovery cable network and streamed on HBO Max.

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