San Diego is facing a $16.5 million payout after a judge found it added late-payment penalties to parking citations without giving people proper notice of the penalties or enough time to pay the original ticket.

(Subscription required) Justice Thomas DeSantos brought lessons from Hanford farm fields, small-town law practice, and the Kings County bench to California's appellate court.

The denial marks a setback for California's ​efforts to stop the Santa Ynez project, ⁠which Sable restarted in March after the federal government's ​intervention. For Sable, it marks a major win, sending ​the company's shares up nearly 12%.

Fees charged by Lexis for conducting research on its databases are not recoverable as costs, Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal has held, rejecting a prevailing defendant’s contention that a contrary 1993 California appellate opinion should be repudiated and the reasoning of two U.S. District Court memorandum opinions should be adopted.