(Subscription required) The high court on Wednesday denied the firm’s petition for review and request to depublish the First District Court of Appeal’s June opinion in Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing (Lipeles). The First District panel agreed with San Francisco trial court judge that the plaintiffs firm and three of its attorneys should pay a penalty for including “false citations and misrepresentations in their seemingly non-meritorious” pleading in a PAGA case.

Based on interviews conducted with 34 federal judges between October 2025 and July 2026, the report found that escalating threats, intimidation, harassment and disinformation targeting judges are straining the federal judiciary.

The Fifth District Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed an order awarding a victim of childhood sexual abuse $1.8 million in restitution for non-economic losses, as well as smaller amounts to her mother and brother, rejecting the defendant’s assertion that a trial judge is obligated to provide a methodology as to how he arrived at the calculation of damages in order to allow meaningful review of whether the decree is reasonable.

Div. Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, in conformity with an increasing trend of according anonymity to adult parties in proceedings, yesterday employed only the initials of a man who was convicted of a Jan. 4, 1999 murder of a 14-year-old during a drive-by-shooting, even though the man’s name appeared in news reports and in an unpublished appellate opinion.