The California Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Monterey on October 8, the court’s first in Monterey since 1979. The special session will be attended by students and teachers from nearby schools.

The Third District Court of Appeal has declared that an award of attorney fees was properly denied a man who defeated a city’s efforts to have him held in contempt of court for violating a workplace violence restraining order by placing two posts on his Facebook page asserting that a municipal official was being accorded favored treatment by local government.

The Third District Court of Appeal has held that Kaiser Foundation Hospitals failed to establish the existence of an agreement to arbitrate a dispute over the group’s provision of so-called “gender affirming care” to influencer Chloe Cole, who has since rejected her transgender identity and claimed that the procedures—performed while she was in her early teens—have caused her “deep” wounds,” allowing the high profile case to continue in court.

Div. Three of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a robber, who pled guilty to first-degree murder relating to the death of a purported co-conspirator a few months after the California Supreme Court announced that a defendant accused of a provocative act killing must personally harbor malice, is precluded from seeking resentencing based on assertions that he might have been convicted without a showing of the requisite intent.