SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. California Coastal Commission and Dolan v. Supreme Court.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

At its conference yesterday, a double one, the Supreme Court’s actions of note included: Taxpayer standing. The court granted review in Raju v. ” The delays at issue began after a three-month COVID-pandemic shutdown of the superior court. The court will also hear People v. Navarro below.)

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2022

Orrick of the US District Court of Northern California Wednesday reduced damages Tesla owed in a workplace racial harassment suit from $137 million to $15 million. Last October, worker Owen Diaz sued Tesla for violating California state law and 42 USC §1981 , which guarantees non-discrimination in the making of contracts.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 13, 2024

The Supreme Court yesterday announced it will hear six oral arguments in April, tying last week’s argument session as the biggest calendar of the term. The issues are: (1) Does the California Environmental Quality Act (Pub. Horvitz & Levy represents the Regents and other defendants in the Supreme Court.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here are some notable Supreme Court actions at its conference yesterday: Public records retention. The court granted review in both City of Gilroy v. Superior Court and Law Foundation of Silicon Valley v. Superior Court , consolidated the cases, and made City of Gilroy the lead case. Penal Code section 1172.75

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At the Lectern

MAY 1, 2024

The Supreme Court today announced it will hear nine cases on its late-May calendar. That’s as many arguments as on next week’s large early-May calendar , and it puts the court on pace to issue well over 50 opinions this term. The court granted review in March 2023. The court granted review in August 2022.

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JURIST

JUNE 23, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition for certiorari to review a ruling from the Ninth Circuit that ordered the Union Pacific Railroad and others to pay part of a $16.5 million cleanup of a California Superfund site. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administers the Superfund program.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 28, 2024

Country Oaks Partners , the Supreme Court today holds that a health care agent of a skilled nursing facility resident can’t agree on the resident’s behalf to arbitrate claims of negligent care against the facility. ” The court affirms the published opinion of the Second District, Division Four, Court of Appeal.

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At the Lectern

MAY 19, 2023

Monday morning the Supreme Court will file its opinion in People ex rel. The issue teed up for decision is whether California’s whistleblower statute, Labor Code section 1102.5 , protects an employee from retaliation for disclosing unlawful activity when the information is already known to that person or agency.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supreme Court decision limits the agency's available relief, according to briefs filed this week in California federal court. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has renewed its push for nearly $200 million in restitution from CashCall Inc. to borrowers, while the tribe-linked lender countered that a U.S.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Here are some notable actions at yesterday’s double conference: Supreme Court will answer Ninth Circuit’s damages-limitation question. In Laettner on Reinstatement , the court, following the State Bar’s recommendation, ended John Laettner’s suspension from practicing law. Reinstating a removed judge to the bar.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether tribal immunity bars beachgoers from asserting a right of way to public beaches over a Native American tribe’s private property and whether the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act’s fee schedule violates the Constitution. of Florence v.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Here are some actions of note at yesterday’s relatively light pre-Thanksgiving Supreme Court conference , the only conference of the year held on a Tuesday : Intra-division split on criminal appellate procedure. The court granted review in People v. and shows the continued disagreement in that court on the issue.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 27, 2023

Why is that important and why did the case attract seven different amicus curiae briefs, including from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation and the League of California Cities and California Special Districts Association? But, the court says, “that split of authority is not before us.” In Davis v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

As it has so many times before, the Supreme Court rejected California’s treatment of arbitration under California law, in this case California’s Private Attorneys General Act. The California state courts (predictably) rejected that waiver as inconsistent with PAGA. Moriana will surprise nobody.

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Law 360

APRIL 5, 2022

A hospital asked the California Supreme Court to rule a nurse hired through a staffing company can't bring a separate wage and hour class action against it after settling similar labor claims against the agency, arguing Tuesday it was an agent of the temp company with an "intertwined" relationship.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 23, 2021

The Ninth Circuit yesterday asked for the Supreme Court’s help in deciding an issue of California insurance law. The federal appellate court posed this question in Allied Premier Insurance v. This is the first Ninth Circuit request to the Supreme Court since one in December , which was the only ask of 2020.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 3, 2023

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. who oversees the federal judiciary in addition to leading the nation’s highest court, released the federal judiciary’s year end report for 2022 on Friday. . Despite the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Roberts, Jr., Wade was leaked in May 2022. schools. .

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At the Lectern

MAY 22, 2023

the Supreme Court today holds that Labor Code section 1102.5 , subdivision (b), which protects employees who disclose suspected violations of the law to their employers, applies even when an employee discloses information to an employer or agency that already knew about the violation. Garcia-Brower v. Kolla’s Inc. ,

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 27, 2023

Disability Rights California (see Welf. & filed an original writ petition in the Supreme Court yesterday seeking to prevent enforcement of the CARE Act, legislation enacted in September at the urging of Governor Gavin Newsom. ” The writ petition — Disability Rights California v. .” & Inst.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As noted in an earlier post on this site , the United States Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Cassirer v. This case originated in the state of California and was then appealed to the Ninth Circuit before filing a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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At the Lectern

MAY 12, 2021

The Supreme Court today agreed to answer this question for the Ninth Circuit in Allied Premier Insurance v. United Financial Casualty Company : Under California’s Motor Carriers of Property Permit Act , Cal. Code §§ 34600 et seq., Code §§ 34600 et seq., Link added.]. The lone denial during that time was in October 2019.

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The Crime Report

JULY 28, 2021

Lexipol LLC has helped stiffen resistance to serious reforms among smaller and mid-sized police departments across the nation, write University of California, Los Angeles law professors Ingrid V. Founded in 2003, Lexipol advises on policies and trainings for nearly one-third of law enforcement agencies nationwide. Eagly and Joanna C.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Kentucky can recover $870 million from an online poker platform to recoup Kentuckians’ losses and whether federal approval of Roundup can protect Monsanto from violations under California law. Monsanto Company v.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hastings was California’s first chief justice, from 1850 to 1852. The New York Times’s Thomas Fuller has also written about the possibility of renaming the law school because of this infamous chapter of Hastings’s past — “ He Unleashed a California Massacre. Should This School Be Named for Him?

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At the Lectern

MARCH 19, 2024

Supreme Court specifically, the Chief Justice made a point of expressing views that could be seen as implicitly drawing contrasts between the high court on the one hand and the court and judicial system she leads on the other. and we have misconduct oversight from an independent state agency.” ’ ” ( Id.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 28, 2022

Just this week, the Supreme Court decided an important conflict of laws question in Cassirer v. The Cassirer family initially brought proceedings in the United States Court of Restitution Appeals under the assumption that the painting had been lost or destroyed—but it wasn’t destroyed. Justice Kagan’s unanimous opinion agreed.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 15, 2022

Commission on State Mandates , the Supreme Court today held that several community college districts might not be entitled to compensation for new state regulations imposing conditions that could threaten the districts’ state aid. ” “[T]he regulations induce rather than obligate compliance,” the court said.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last year, the Supreme Court limited an SEC practice of seeking disgorgement awards without deducting legitimate expenses. Securities and Exchange Commission , the justices are again asked to rein in the power of the SEC, in what the petitioners claim is a “power grab” to exercise authority that Congress did not grant to the agency.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Most lists of Supreme Court conference results are five or more pages long. The court still ruled on 60 matters, but it was a lighter than usual number of cases. By comparison, at the court’s final conference last year, there were 138 rulings. Related: “What’s ailing the California Supreme Court?

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At the Lectern

MARCH 2, 2022

Ledesma opinion is a reminder that the Supreme Court probably won’t decide an issue that wasn’t timely raised. Even after the court has granted review. Even after the court has specifically granted review on the untimely raised issue. Rules of Court, rule 8.500 (c)(1).)” California Coastal Com.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Share With two dozen cases from its 2021-22 term still undecided, the Supreme Court on Tuesday released the first argument calendar for its 2022-23 term. 3, the justices will hear oral argument in important cases involving issues such as voting rights, the Clean Water Act, and a challenge to a California animal-welfare law.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 22, 2023

At the Supreme Court’s conference , actions of note included: Enhancement dismissal. The court agreed to hear People v. 721 ) create a rebuttable presumption in favor of dismissing an enhancement unless the trial court finds dismissal would endanger public safety? ” (Links added.) CEQA depublication.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 22, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the federal government’s state-secrets privilege to protect classified information from disclosure. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit allowed discovery in the case to proceed. California. In United States v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

Supreme Court recently returned to the bench for its February sitting. The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. Below is a brief summary of the cases before the Court: Denezpi v. Litigation about the Rule ensued, and the Supreme Court granted review of the Second Circuit’s opinion.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Actions of note at yesterday’s Supreme Court conference included: Using an unusual procedure, Supreme Court further extends redistricting deadlines. The court dismissed review “as improvidently granted” (see here ) in Molina v. Superior Court and five related grant-and-holds. See here.).

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

At yesterday’s Supreme Court’s conference , a double one, actions of note included: AB 333 retroactivity. The court agreed to hear People v. where he appeals for a second time after his judgment was conditionally reversed and the Court of Appeal issued a limited remand to the trial court to address sentencing issues?

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