• States Sue to Block Trump Order Restricting Mail-in Ballots

    The Recorder
    April 3, 2026

    (Subscription required) California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the order, which gives the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented power to decide who can cast ballots, violates the rights of states and Congress to conduct elections.

    Related: Los Angeles Times, ABC7

  • LA personal injury hub ends as court returns to single-judge model

    Daily Journal
    April 3, 2026

    (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.

  • Consumer Expectation Test Inapplicable to Freak Accident

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    April 3, 2026

    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.

  • Prosecutor’s Failure to Contradict Perjury Properly Raised

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    April 3, 2026

    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.