The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a San Diego attorney’s complaint asserting a claim for slander relating to an immigration judge allegedly saying in front of court staff that she would “take [his] license to practice law”—a statement he characterizes as a false accusation of unethical behavior—was properly dismissed as barred by sovereign immunity.

The Supreme Court is meeting in private Friday with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump ’s birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not Ame

A Code of Civil Procedure section that provides for the tolling of the period within which to file a paper that has been rejected by a clerk’s office does not apply where an employer is appealing a labor commissioner’s decision and seeking a waiver of a bond requirement, Div. Five of the First District Court of Appeal held.

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.