The Court of Appeal for this district yesterday upheld the validity of a voter-enacted tax in the City of Santa Barbara on video services, holding that it does not violate a federal statute that bars “discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.”

A judge did not abuse his discretion in permitting the parents of a man fatally shot by police to file a late claim against a governmental entity, Div. Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has determined, saying that while it was a “serious” error on the part of a law firm to send papers to the wrong city, it was not an “unreasonable” one.

Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that felony assault charges against an in-custody defendant must be dismissed where the prosecutors failed to conduct a preliminary hearing within 10 court days of his arraignment, declaring that the timeline may not be extended to that applicable to other suspects by virtue of a judge’s release order on which the jailers did not act until the statutory period had expired.

Ronda Deplazes thought Gov. Newsom’s CARE Court could save her son as he struggled with mental illness. Two years later, she and other families say little has changed for them.