A divided Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal on Friday vacated a $21 million judgment based on an arbitral award due to purported standing deficiencies not raised in the trial court, asserting that the rule that jurisdiction can be raised at any time takes precedence over principles concerning the limited judicial role in overseeing arbitration proceedings.

The Sixth District Court of Appeal has held that the Fourth Amendment precludes the admission of evidence obtained during an inventory search of a vehicle that was impounded solely due to the suspended status of the driver’s license and a concern that the defendant might drive off in the car after receiving a citation.

Div. Four of the First District Court of Appeal has served notice to self-represented lay parties that they, to the same extent as lawyers, are subject to monetary sanctions for providing false citations as the result of using artificial intelligence.

The question the California Supreme Court agreed to hear was: is a religious employer excused from wage claims brought by its minister-employees simply because it is a religious employer or, instead, are such claims only limited to the extent the religious employer can demonstrate in a particular case that the minister’s claims implicate the entity’s internal government closely linked to religious doctrine?