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The Comerica Bank Tower, which houses the Sixth District's courthouse. The California Court of Appeal for the Sixth District is located in the Comerica Bank building in San Jose. Its jurisdiction covers Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties. [1] It has seven justices. Justices: Mary J. Greenwood, Administrative Presiding ...
The California appellate projects are 501(c)(3) [1] non-profit legal corporations under a contract with the California Court of Appeal [2] to provide legal services to indigent parties on appeal from criminal, delinquency, dependency and mental health judgments in their respective district. There are five appellate project corporations, of ...
Dennis M. Perluss (born May 12, 1948) is the Presiding Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Seven, having been appointed to the post by Governor Gray Davis in 2003. [1] Perluss received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1970 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1973. [1] From 1973–1974, he was a law clerk to U.S.
Carol Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc. was a decision by the California Court of Appeal, which ruled that the "actual malice" required under California law for imposition of punitive damages is distinct from the "actual malice" required by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan to be liable for defaming a "public figure", and that the National Enquirer is not a "newspaper" for the purposes of ...
In April 1999, Johnson was appointed to the federal bench as a United States magistrate judge.He was reappointed to a second term in April 2007. [1] [9]While on the federal bench, he served on several committees of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, including the Capital Cases Committee, the Rules Committee, the Criminal Justice Act Committee, and the ...
(Reuters) -California cannot enforce a law requiring people to undergo background checks to buy ammunition, because it violates the constitutional right to bear arms, a federal judge has ruled.
Staples the Office Superstore, LLC (2021), California's Second District Court of Appeal held that "courts have inherent authority to ensure that PAGA claims can be fairly and efficiently tried and, if necessary, may strike claims that cannot be rendered manageable."
Taus v. Loftus, 151 P.3d 1185 (Cal. 2007) was a Supreme Court of California case in which the court held that academic researchers' publication of information relating to a study by another researcher was newsworthy and subject to protection under the state's anti-SLAPP act. The court noted that the defendants had not disclosed the plaintiff's ...