The Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Six, will host its educational outreach program, “Appellate Court Experience” (ACE), for students from Santa Paula High School and Frontier High School. 

(Subscription required) Sacramento County Judge Jaya Badiga's non-traditional path through domestic-violence work, family law practice, and public service shapes her approach on the bench, where attorneys praise her demeanor, expertise and commitment to fair, trauma-informed judging.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial judge erred in denying an employer’s motion to compel arbitration of claims based on a 2022 federal law providing that a party asserting sexual harassment claims may opt-out of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, saying that the jurist wrongly looked only to whether the plaintiff filed her complaint after the law’s enactment and did not consider when the underlying dispute arose.

A summons and complaint in an action seeking past-due rent from former commercial tenants, who had vacated the premises, were properly served by leaving them not at the address specified in the lease for delivery of notices, but at one of the defendants’ remaining places of business, Div. Seven of this district’s Court of Appeal has held.