(Subscription required) A California state appeals court has ruled that a man should be entitled to a resentencing hearing after he was unfairly sentenced using a firearm enhancement and that he is likely being made to serve longer in prison than necessary.

(Subscription required) While Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl's decisions do not determine liability, they ensure that the social media companies will be able to argue immunity, free-speech protection and fault apportionment to jurors.

The Sixth District Court of Appeal has held that an anti-SLAPP motion was correctly granted in a case in which a man who is confined to a wheelchair was allegedly threatened by a police officer with arrest if he did not leave a post office where he was attempting to file a complaint based on what he contended was disability discrimination by the Postal Service.

(Subscription required) Superior Court Judge Steven E. Ipson presides over juvenile delinquency cases in Pomona with the same deliberate pace and discipline that shaped his years in dependency court, emphasizing accountability, respect, and rehabilitation.