Div. One of the Court of Appeal for this district has affirmed an award of $356,223 in favor judgment creditors to compensate them for fees and costs they have paid in an effort to get the defendants to pay up on some of the more than $2.6 million awarded in 2021 in a fraud action, rejecting the contention that the trial judge impermissibly ordered remuneration for work done by a disbarred lawyer.

The California Supreme Court held yesterday, in the first opinion to address the statutory scheme governing peremptory challenges as of 2021, that the law requires a party, in asserting certain enumerated behaviors on the part of a potential juror as the reason for excluding the person, to explain why the conduct matters in the case to be tried in order to defeat a presumption of bias. even if the highlighted actions are confirmed by the judge.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump administration’s policy of refusing bond hearings to most unauthorized immigrants who are detained in the interior of the United States.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a violation of California’s domestic violence statute that renders a “person who willfully inflicts corporal injury” on a current or former romantic partner guilty of a felony, does not qualify the offense as a “crime of violence” for purposes of a sentencing enhancement under federal guidelines.