(Subscription required) California's state bar previously charged DTLA founder Salar Hendizadeh with professional misconduct for marketing and offering legal services without a license in states as far away as Florida.

A man accused of carrying out a series of racially motivated attacks in Santa Monica, including an attempted murder, will face trial after the California Supreme Court declined to review a ruling overturning a judge’s decision to grant him mental health diversion, officials announced Thursday.

Arthur Gilbert, who served as presiding justice of Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal from Nov. 9, 1999, until last Jan. 1, has hailed the nomination by Gov. Gavin Newsom of Terri Cody as successor.

The Court of Appeal for this district has held that a woman who sued the City of West Hollywood before it turned down her claim or it was denied by operation of law, then dismissed her action without prejudice when it became clear that she had not acted in compliance with statute, could not cure the defect by refiling the lawsuit after the requisite waiting period expired.