Div. Four of the Court of Appeal for this district yesterday affirmed a $311,500 compensatory-damages award to a woman whose brother accused her, in emails to her attorney/husband, of attempting to defraud their elderly parents, threatening in the communiques to bring a lawsuit.

Reference to a “course of conduct” in the statute authorizing issuance of civil harassment restraining orders does not restrict imposition of restrictions on a defendant who has committed only a single act of violence, Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal has held.

(Subscription required) A lawyer's failure to check the delusional ChatGPT output he folded into his pleadings has cost him $10,000 in sanctions and made him the target of a state appellate panel's withering opinion of first impression regarding hallucinations in legal drafting.

(Subscription required) One hundred former California judges, most of them retired from the state's 58 trial courts, signed a "Declaration of Judicial Independence." The declaration is a public call to protect judicial officers and court systems from "misinformation, disinformation, and fiery rhetoric."