The California Supreme Court yesterday publicly posted a Jan. 14 order denying depublication of a Court of Appeal opinion holding that a city council may, under the Ralph M. Brown Act, exclude all spectators from a meeting in light of the presence of disruptors but is without authority to adjourn to another room, triggering a concurring statement from Justice Joshua P. Groban calling for clarifying legislation.

(Subscription required) In the first case of its kind to reach the Supreme Court, justices directed the 3rd District Court of Appeal to reconsider sanctions over a brief containing fabricated citations in a criminal case.

(Subscription required) The petition seeks to compel Wolfire Games to comply with an arbitrator-issued subpoena, testing statutory changes that expanded arbitrators' authority to obtain third-party discovery.

Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a defendant, who has been identified as eligible for resentencing under a provision that contemplates such reconsideration if the accused’s initial sentence includes a now-defunct prior-prison enhancement, is not foreclosed from securing relief by virtue of having been released on parole before the hearing takes place even though the statute references inmates “currently serving a term.”