Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal held yesterday that the so-called “Yelp Law,” which protects the right of consumers to post negative reviews of businesses, does not create a private right of action for civil penalties absent allegations that the company threatened enforcement of a non-disparagement clause.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that conversion under California law is a strict liability tort for which apportionment of fault with other tortfeasors is available, reviving a third-party complaint by defendants who were accused of keeping stock certificates that were wrongly transferred to them after they paused a deal without paying and who asserted equitable indemnity claims against the agents purportedly responsible for the transfer.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump administration’s policy of refusing bond hearings to most unauthorized immigrants who are detained in the interior of the United States.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a violation of California’s domestic violence statute that renders a “person who willfully inflicts corporal injury” on a current or former romantic partner guilty of a felony, does not qualify the offense as a “crime of violence” for purposes of a sentencing enhancement under federal guidelines.