Unreasonableness on the part of a Superior Court clerk’s office in bouncing a notice of appeal has, for the second time in a period of less than a month, drawn scorn of a court of appeal, with the First District’s Div. Five holding that there was no justification for the rejection of such a document and that a judge subsequently erred in sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend and ordering a judgment of dismissal.

A divided panel of Div. Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that it was structural error for a judge to grant an attorney’s request to be relieved from his post-judgment appointment, and to take a motion off calendar, without first giving notice to the defendant even if the lawyer correctly pointed out to the court that his client is statutorily ineligible for the relief he sought.

The Court of Appeal for this district has reinstated an action against a rabbi who allegedly tore up signs a woman planned to use in protesting the conducting of “Kapparot,” an Orthodox Jewish ritual that includes the slaughtering of a chicken. Justice John L. Segal of Div. Seven authored the unpublished opinion, filed Friday. 

A nurse at a hospital successfully pled a cause of action for false imprisonment based on an allegation that an administrative assistant-secretary who was under her supervision blocked her from exiting her office, even without a specification as to the duration of the detention and the apparent purpose having been to prevent a third party from leaving, the Sixth District Court of Appeal has held.