(Subscription required) A Santa Maria man has agreed to plead guilty to detonating a bomb in a Santa Barbara County courthouse in 2024, according to an agreement with prosecutors filed in the U.S. District Court for California’s Central District. Nathaniel James McGuire will plead guilty to one count of using a weapon of mass destruction and one count of using an explosive for malicious destruction of a building.

Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial judge did not abuse her discretion in awarding the rape victim of an on-campus assault $20,000 in restitution to account for a four-year scholarship she lost after withdrawing from classes at the Camarillo-based California State University Channel Islands in the wake of the attack, rejecting the defendant’s view that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision operates to require a jury trial on the issue.

A nurse at a hospital successfully pled a cause of action for false imprisonment based on an allegation that an administrative assistant-secretary who was under her supervision blocked her from exiting her office, even without a specification as to the duration of the detention and the apparent purpose having been to prevent a third party from leaving, the Sixth District Court of Appeal has held.

The Court of Appeal for this district has reinstated an action against a rabbi who allegedly tore up signs a woman planned to use in protesting the conducting of “Kapparot,” an Orthodox Jewish ritual that includes the slaughtering of a chicken. Justice John L. Segal of Div. Seven authored the unpublished opinion, filed Friday.