(Subscription required) The legislation would make corporate meddling in legal decisions subject to statutory penalties and a possible state bar investigation.

A couple that was divorced on Dec. 15, 2023 when a judge signed an order granting a default judgment of dissolution, and un-divorced on March 5, 2025 when the court acceded to a stipulation of the parties to set aside the previous orders, remain married, under yesterday’s decision of the Third District Court of Appeal rejecting the husband’s contention that there was no authority for the action.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday held that a second motion to compel arbitration, which points to language in an additional agreement not cited in the first request, qualifies as a renewal of an earlier bid under a Civil Code section requiring “subsequent applications for the same order” to be accompanied by an affidavit, highlighting that it is the relief sought, and not the ground asserted, that governs.

A divided California Supreme Court upheld a Black man’s death sentence Thursday for raping and murdering a young white woman in Kern County, rejecting arguments by dissenting justices that the prosecutor engaged in racial discrimination by removing the only Black juror without stating his reasons.