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Supreme Court will decide parole eligibility issue for young-adult offenders

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Yesterday’s Supreme Court conference , a double one, was one of several firsts: the first conference of 2023, the first with Patricia Guerrero as chief justice, and the first for new Justice Kelli Evans. Also, the conference featured Justice Evans’s first dissenting vote. Gascón (see here ). Chocolate fraud. Walmart, Inc.

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Supreme Court will review wages case for a second time

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Lowe’s Home Centers , where a Second District, Division Three, unpublished opinion upheld the dismissal by demurrer of a lawsuit by a pro per attorney. Espinoza (2023) 14 Cal.5th Three cases that had been on hold for the April decision in In re Lopez (2023) 14 Cal.5th The court denied review in Birke v.

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Review granted in a taxpayer action about COVID speedy trial rights and in yet another SB 1437 case

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” The trial court had dismissed the action on demurrer, ruling that one superior court cannot direct a writ of mandamus to another superior court. 1307 (2023-2024 Reg. 2023) 14 Cal.5th The Supreme Court, however, did grant the Attorney General’s petition for review, making the case a grant-and-hold for People v.