Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday held that a second motion to compel arbitration, which points to language in an additional agreement not cited in the first request, qualifies as a renewal of an earlier bid under a Civil Code section requiring “subsequent applications for the same order” to be accompanied by an affidavit, highlighting that it is the relief sought, and not the ground asserted, that governs.

A divided California Supreme Court upheld a Black man’s death sentence Thursday for raping and murdering a young white woman in Kern County, rejecting arguments by dissenting justices that the prosecutor engaged in racial discrimination by removing the only Black juror without stating his reasons.

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