A Los Angeles Superior Court judge erred in ordering that the University of Southern California await the outcome of a lawsuit against it before resuming disciplinary proceedings against a student who allegedly engaged in disorderly conduct in his confrontations with another tenant in off-campus housing, including throwing a glass at him, Div. Five of the Court of Appeal for this district held yesterday.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a judge erred in denying a wife’s request for on-going needs-based attorney fees based on her previous litigation tactics in the family court proceedings, saying that the fact that she was found to have lied in an earlier declaration and to have used wasteful strategies in the past had no impact on her entitlement to a pendente lite award.

The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold an in-person public hearing in San Francisco at 9 a.m. on Monday to consider the nomination of California Supreme Court chambers attorney Matthew Scherb to the role of an associate justice of Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal.

(Subscription required) The filing in U.S. District Court for the District of Central California cites the plaintiffs’ claims that the new Democrat-friendly maps rely on unconstitutional race-based gerrymandering.