May 1, 2026
Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three
The Rule of In re Marriage of Nishida and Kamoda is that a family law fraud action filed timely in civil court and transferred to family law court may proceed on the merits rather than being dismissed for jurisdictional reasons, under circumstances where the plaintiff filed a civil complaint within the one-year discovery period of Family Code section 2122(a) and the case was properly transferred between departments of the same superior court.
April 29, 2026
Court of Appeal of the State of California, Sixth Appellate District
The Rule of People v. Mohammed is that trial courts lack inherent jurisdiction to correct unauthorized sentences once judgment is final and execution has begun, under circumstances where the defendant has not timely appealed and the court acts solely based on the unauthorized sentence rule.
April 23, 2026
Supreme Court of California
The Rule of Shear Development Co. v. California Coastal Commission is that courts must exercise independent judgment in determining an agency's appellate jurisdiction when that jurisdiction depends primarily on interpretation of enacted law rather than factual matters, and where two agencies offer conflicting interpretations of a law both administer, no deference is due to either when the Yamaha factors do not clearly favor one interpretation, under circumstances where jurisdictional disputes turn on legal interpretation of local coastal programs and multiple agencies share administrative responsibility.
March 23, 2026
Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division One
The Rule of People v. Sanchez is that when a court corrects a clerical error in calculating prison time on an abstract of judgment, it lacks jurisdiction to modify other aspects of a final sentence absent specific statutory authorization, under circumstances where the original sentencing court properly sentenced defendant to separate felony prison terms and misdemeanor county jail terms but the abstract incorrectly included misdemeanor time in the total state prison calculation.
February 17, 2026
Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Four
The Rule of Bagby v. Davis is that California law applies to collection actions in California courts regardless of where the judgment debtor lives, and that a voluntarily surrendered life insurance policy is treated as matured (not exempt) unless the proceeds are necessary for the debtor's support, under circumstances where the debtor seeks exemption from levy on accounts funded by surrendered insurance policy proceeds.