An attorney who had a lien against his client’s real property as security for payment of his fees and recorded a lis pendens after the realty was sold, resulting in a suit against him by the purchaser, is protected by the litigation privilege against liability for slander of title and abuse of process, Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has held.

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has overturned two attempted murder convictions due to prosecutorial misconduct by a Los Angeles deputy district attorney who improperly suggested to the jury that the defendant hired lawyers to help him get away with the crime and commented on the accused’s failure to raise his defense earlier by testifying at the preliminary hearing, drawing dissent as to whether the remarks require reversal.

The Court of Appeal for this district has concluded that a Bel Air attorney falsely proclaimed himself to have been to blame for terminating sanctions being imposed on his client, executing an affidavit of fault in an effort to gain reinstatement of cross claims in a commercial landlord-tenant dispute.

The U.S. Supreme Court signaled on Wednesday that it is actively debating how to interpret the wording of a law that limits when a president can use members of the National Guard in a challenge to President Donald Trump's bid to dispatch troops to the Chicago area.