• Realtor Has No Duty to Warn Buyer of Local Ordinances

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    June 25, 2026

    Realtors representing the sellers of a home in San Marino did not breach a duty to the buyers to reveal that city ordinances barred parking on the street between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. and forbade leaving a vehicle in the driveway for 48 straight hours, Div. Four of this district’s Court of Appeal has held.

  • Firm’s Firing of Conflicted Lawyer Disrupts Disqualification

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    June 25, 2026

    The Fifth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial judge rightly denied a motion seeking the disqualification of a firm that had hired an attorney who had represented an opposing party in ongoing litigation, declaring that the prompt termination of the associate was sufficient to avoid a conflict where substantial evidence supported a finding that the lawyer had not shared any confidential information.

  • Ninth Circuit Says District Court Judge Applied State Unconscionability Cases Too Broadly

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    June 24, 2026

    The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday revived a company’s request to compel arbitration in a putative class action accusing it of violating California labor laws, saying that a judge misapplied state unconscionability cases, which have invalidated employment contracts that provide sweeping coverage for all claims, to an agreement containing other terms indicating an intent to limit the scope to work-related causes of action.

  • Before Brown v. Board, another segregation case changed public schools. That fight isn’t over.

    The 19th
    June 24, 2026

    Eight decades after Mendez et al. v. Westminster sparked a revolution, the people preserving its legacy confront the reality that many schools are still segregated.