(Subscription required) Los Angeles Superior Court sunsets its personal injury hub, shifting cases back to independent calendar courts as attorneys welcome single-judge oversight despite concerns about workload and long-term sustainability of the system.

The Sixth District Court of Appeal has held that the “consumer expectations test” for determining if a product is defective does not apply in a case where a woman exited a car, leaving her fob inside, her two-and-a-half year old son climbed in, starting the vehicle, which then rammed into the mother, causing severe injuries.

A defendant’s right under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1959 decision in Napue v. Illinois for a correction by the prosecution of testimony it knows to be false is not forfeited by virtue of a failure to raise it at trial or on appeal, Div. One of the Court of Appeal for this district declared yesterday in granting a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

(Subscription required) Over the past year, judges have issued everything from sharply worded rebukes and monetary sanctions to referrals for professional discipline as they try to rein in attorneys whose briefs contain AI‑generated hallucinations, or fabricated or inaccurate case citations produced by AI systems. As courts continue to navigate one of the legal profession’s mounting technological and ethical rifts, the use and amount of monetary sanctions also seem to be increasing.