(Subscription required) The California Supreme Court declined to review a Court of Appeal ruling largely upholding a massive judgment in a two-decade battle over an alleged oral real estate partnership among the Jogani brothers.

(Subscription required) Dear spent almost his entire career at California’s high court, helping shape justices’ decisions on the state’s biggest legal issues, from the death penalty to gay marriage to how workers should be classified.

Div. Seven of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a survival clause in a woman’s revocable living trust naming her three children as beneficiaries, but providing that a child who did not survive her by more than 30 days would be deemed “for all purposes” to have died before her, was insufficient to overcome California’s anti-lapse statute and cut-off inheritance by the children of a son who predeceased her.

(Subscription required) The former Sacramento juvenile court presiding judge says appellate work is less immediate but steady and relentless.