Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a motion for judgment on the pleadings was properly granted in a representative wage-and-hour action after an earlier-filed matter alleging the same wage and hour claims had settled, rejecting the assertion that the settling plaintiff’s failure to comply with a 65-day waiting period before filing an amended pleading gutted the preclusive effect of the earlier judgment as to the newly filed cause of action.

The Tracy City Council will put more pressure on the state to release funding for a new courthouse that could serve south San Joaquin County. During Tuesday’s regular meeting, the council voted unanimously to send a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom in support of building a new courthouse in Tracy.

The California Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions (CJEO) invites public comment on a draft formal opinion addressing when former mentors in the California Judicial Mentor Program (CJMP) must disclose a past mentorship or disqualify themselves if a former mentee appears before them.

(Subscription required) While California law school deans want the state bar to adopt the National Conference of Bar Examiners' NextGen exam, some at the agency are watching with interest as Nevada prepares to launch its own test.