A Second District panel struck overbroad scope and one-sided terms from a car dealership's hiring agreement and enforced the rest as to the employee's own claims.
A First District panel held that claims resting only on unprotected conduct fall outside the anti-SLAPP statute and must be challenged by demurrer instead.
A 2-1 Second District panel held VXI Global Solutions' arbitration pact too one-sided to enforce; the dissent said federal arbitration law preempts that analysis.
The Third District ordered a trial court to determine whether San Joaquin County's lawyers acted in bad faith when they moved to remove a judge from a conservatorship case, one of an estimated 325 such challenges they filed against her in under four months.
The Third Appellate District held that two delivery drivers who called a $5.75 million Apria Healthcare class settlement a reverse auction waited too long to intervene.
A state appeals court held that a law protecting sexual assault survivors who speak out covered a former ballet student's podcast accusations against her old teacher.
A state appellate panel held that four school districts cannot make Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube pay for the costs of a student mental health crisis.
A state appellate panel read an ambiguous clause in Uber's terms of use against the company, keeping riders' entire false-advertising suit in court.
A state appeals court affirmed dismissal of a guest's suit claiming Airbnb's payments arm must be licensed under the Escrow Law and stop keeping interest on guest money.
A Sixth District panel held Pajaro Valley Unified owed no duty to a student who was never the teacher's pupil and was abused at her home in summer 1997.
A state appeals panel held a $1,000 lease cap cannot limit a winning tenant's court costs but can limit attorney fees, since the lease was the only fee source.
Three fired deputies failed to show that sheriff's department chiefs had authority to bind Los Angeles County to deals reinstating them, an appeals court held.
A state appeals panel held that the Graves Amendment preempts California's owner-liability statute for rental companies, which also owe no duty to check renters' insurance.
A party must admit the true parts of a multipart request for admission, the Fourth District held, while upholding a $1,950 award on an $81,875 fee request.
A state appeals court held that account gains by an investor who died at 93 did not defeat elder abuse claims and that a trial judge wrongly cut off years of older conduct.
A First District panel held that e-service of a judgment notice extends the 30-day fee-motion deadline in validation actions, saving a $27,625 award.
The court held PUC rules never warned TC Telephone before 2020 that it couldn't bill per minute, annulling that basis for an $8.16 million repayment order.
The city waived privilege over lawyer-assisted Fair Chance Act assessments by telling state civil rights investigators it had complied with the law, the court held.
Six teachers who worked all of 2022-2023 but quit before their contract was approved must receive its retroactive raises and stipends, the court held.
A state appellate panel held that California's job-discrimination law leaves intact the presumption that a corporation exists separately from its owner.
A First District panel held the county cannot win discretionary-act immunity on the pleadings where a foster child alleges workers never investigated his abuse report.
A First District panel reversed a $15,397.96 costs award to Aspire Bakeries, holding that FEHA's express-findings rule for defense fee awards also covers ordinary costs.
An appeals panel held that California's ADU law protects permit applicants, reviving a homeowner's bid for more than $1 million over a three-year delay.
A Fifth District panel held that a worker may sue only on behalf of co-workers under the amended PAGA, keeping a technician's case against Belkorp AG out of arbitration.
The Fifth District held a bond-funded lease-leaseback deal for a $36 million middle school needed bids, but the builder must refund only its net profit.
A state appeals court held that an employer cannot enforce an arbitration agreement imposed as a condition of hiring when the Federal Arbitration Act does not apply.
A state appeals court affirmed summary judgment for Palm Springs Unified, finding no evidence its supervisors knew or should have known a teacher was dangerous.
A Fifth District panel upheld defense verdicts for Clovis Unified and a coach whose block broke a 12-year-old's wrist in a selective basketball P.E. class.
A state appellate panel held a San Bernardino judge had no jurisdiction to order an injured worker to repay her employer's lien after the plaintiffs dismissed their suit.
The Fourth District refused to let PACE administrator FortiFi Financial use the anti-SLAPP law to strike a lender's suit alleging a fraud scheme built on super-priority liens.
A state appeals panel held that testimony on Oakland's collapsed office market supported three years of future rent against a law firm that defaulted on its lease.
A state appeals court held that a law shielding East Bay utility pensions from assignment does not block a partner's claim under a cohabitation agreement.
The Sixth District gave Proposition 218's emergency exception its ordinary meaning and deferred to the county board's findings on federal funding cuts.
A Hermosa Beach officer fired for failing the city's COVID-19 vaccination requirement had no right to a POBRA administrative appeal, a state appeals court held.
The Fifth District reversed a writ ordering CalGEM to exempt up to 12 Kern County wastewater injection wells from CEQA and declared a grandfathering rule invalid.
A state appeals court held that a contractor's false insurance applications let Scottsdale void its policies, leaving California's Military Department without coverage.
Probate courts' equitable power to shift fees onto a bad-faith beneficiary protects the trust estate, not a trustee who pays to defend herself, the Fourth District held.
The Second District affirmed a judgment for the UC Regents, holding the law governs an employer's process, not its judgment that a conviction relates to the job.
The Fifth District affirmed an order voiding a $55,000 car-crash verdict after two jurors swore the panel discussed the defendant's wealth and insurance.
The Second District held that Medi-Cal may recover from a dead member's estate only what was paid for care the member received, and voided the state's regulation.
A state appeals panel ordered a San Bernardino County court to quash service on Fanuc Corp., holding California courts lack jurisdiction over the Japanese robot maker.
The label's press release naming two women who sued under pseudonyms was protected, the court held, because they never asked a judge for permission to stay anonymous.
A state appellate panel said residents adequately alleged Stanton bought and razed fourplexes over 17 years without the replacement housing state law requires.
An appeals panel affirmed summary judgment for Burbank Unified, holding indefinite unpaid leave was a reasonable FEHA accommodation of a teacher's religious vaccine exemption.
The Third District held that a psychologist's petition to end her five-year probation early gets deferential substantial-evidence review, not independent judgment.
The Sixth District held that a lot line adjustment bundled with the town's acceptance of a street easement was discretionary and not exempt from CEQA.
The Second District held that an employer faces strict liability only when the harasser supervises the plaintiff, not when the harasser supervises other employees.
A divided Second District panel reversed trial court orders that had invalidated an arbitration agreement, holding that strategic delay in asserting a sexual harassment claim forfeited the federal statute's protections.