Attorneys and parties filing challenges to judicial officers under Code of Civil Procedure §170.6 will be required, under a Los Angeles Superior Court general order, to disclose any other instances during the past year of acting to bump the jurist from a case.

Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal held yesterday that the so-called “Yelp Law,” which protects the right of consumers to post negative reviews of businesses, does not create a private right of action for civil penalties absent allegations that the company threatened enforcement of a non-disparagement clause.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that conversion under California law is a strict liability tort for which apportionment of fault with other tortfeasors is available, reviving a third-party complaint by defendants who were accused of keeping stock certificates that were wrongly transferred to them after they paused a deal without paying and who asserted equitable indemnity claims against the agents purportedly responsible for the transfer.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump administration’s policy of refusing bond hearings to most unauthorized immigrants who are detained in the interior of the United States.