Div. One on Wednesday affirmed a $9,000 sanction imposed on a party in a family law proceeding based not only on her own unreasonableness but also predicated on rudeness displayed in court by her lawyer, Jaclin Awad of Cerritos.

Div. Five of the First District Court of Appeal has held that a trial judge erred in denying a defendant’s motion to dismiss a criminal complaint charging him with forcible rape based on unreasonable delay in bringing the case before a jury, saying that the continuances based on the prosecutor being engaged on another matter were granted in error where the other proceedings had only been deemed to have started based on a stipulation between the parties.

Approval on Thursday largely tracks with the changes proposed by the court in May, which sought to clarify the broad authority of the Committee of Bar Examiners (“CBE”) over the examination process after a botched February test led some to criticize the State Bar’s Board of Trustees for allegedly sidelining the panel as to certain aspects of the admissions process.

In 39-page decision handed down Thursday by the state’s Sixth Appellate District, the justices recognized the county’s right-of-way easement and the public’s interest in a 37-foot concrete walkway along the backside of a row of homes next to Seacliff State Beach in Rio Del Mar. For years, the nearly quarter milelong stretch of coastal land along Beach Drive has been at the center of a dispute between the county and 27 homeowners with units along the path that claim the walkway as patio space.