The state’s highest court has rejected San Diego’s plea to keep intact the 2022 voter-approved ballot measure that removed the 30-foot height limit from the Midway District. Last week, the justices of the Supreme Court of California formally denied the city of San Diego’s petition for review of the appellate court’s ruling, which found that the city illegally put the ordinance before voters without adequately informing them about the environmental impacts associated with taller builders, as required by California’s Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.

(Subscription required) Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alexander P. Sario, a former DJ, brings lessons in tone, awareness and responsiveness from music to the misdemeanor bench, where he emphasizes fairness, courtroom atmosphere and judicial diversion as key tools.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed a District Court decision dismissing a challenge to a Sacramento ordinance that limits issuance of cannabis dispensary licenses to current or former residents of the city, rejecting the contention that the Dormant Commerce Clause prohibits such legislation.

Div. Three of the Court of Appeal for this district has declared that in deciding whether a prevailing party is entitled to an award of attorney fees based on legal work done by his or her attorney/spouse, the inquiry should not be whether a true attorney-client relationship existed, as held in two cases, but whether the property in question is a community asset.