California can discipline professionals when they use alcohol dangerously, even outside of their profession. A state of California administrative agency that governs a profession may…
Posts published in November 2017
The U.S. District Court for N. California proposed court rules changes. The gist is that requests will go to the General Duty Judge. Comment by…
California court are increasingly making the largest Internet and social media companies identify their users who defame others. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Pintrest and others are…
Flouting a trial court’s authority to order production of documents requested in discovery or providing contrary explanations for such conduct can result in heavy monetary…
On November 1, 2017, the San Francisco Government Audit and Oversight Committee recommended that the city of San Francisco approve a $300,000 settlement to Kevin…
On September 29, 2017, the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District (San Francisco), has announced its intention to destroy civil records, case names and numbers…
A party that invites the trial court to commit error is estopped from challenging that error on appeal, but may be sanctioned for its bad…
Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure, Rule 4(a)(5)(C) that limits notice of appeal to 30 days is not “jurisdictional,” because the underlying Congress-made law does not…
A two-page summary of the 76-page 2016 annual report of the Federal Judicial 9th Circuit. More than 61,000 new cases, presided over by more than…