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No Mandamus Relief in Privilege Ruling

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seeking to set aside a district court discovery order piercing attorney-client privilege. After reviewing documents in camera, the district court granted in part Dorel’s motion to compel production of certain Cozy documents listed as privileged on the basis that the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege applied.

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Supreme Court will resolve conflict about co-tenancy leasing requirements (and about punctuation?)

At the Lectern

The Sixth District’s 2-1 published Burgos opinion held the statute is retroactive and reversed second degree robbery convictions. The dissent claimed “section 1109 is not an ameliorative statute. 4th 470 decision of statutes requiring evidence by two experts to bypass services. Tran (2022) 13 Cal.5th c)(1); People v.

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