(Subscription required) Starting in August, Superior Court Judge Ronald O. Kaye will spend four months as a visiting scholar at the Universidad de Granada and Universidad de Málaga in Spain. Kaye sits on Los Angeles County's mental health court in Hollywood, and said American judges could learn a lot from their counterparts in other countries. 

An attorney who had a lien against his client’s real property as security for payment of his fees and recorded a lis pendens after the realty was sold, resulting in a suit against him by the purchaser, is protected by the litigation privilege against liability for slander of title and abuse of process, Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has held.

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has overturned two attempted murder convictions due to prosecutorial misconduct by a Los Angeles deputy district attorney who improperly suggested to the jury that the defendant hired lawyers to help him get away with the crime and commented on the accused’s failure to raise his defense earlier by testifying at the preliminary hearing, drawing dissent as to whether the remarks require reversal.

The Court of Appeal for this district has concluded that a Bel Air attorney falsely proclaimed himself to have been to blame for terminating sanctions being imposed on his client, executing an affidavit of fault in an effort to gain reinstatement of cross claims in a commercial landlord-tenant dispute.