First District affirms UC Berkeley’s expulsion of a student in a non-Title IX sexual misconduct case, holding that any limit on direct cross-examination at the campus hearing was harmless given the prior criminal preliminary hearing.
First District affirms juvenile court jurisdiction but reverses removal of an infant from a mother with serious mental illness because the agency did not show reasonable efforts to prevent removal.
First District affirms a murder conviction but reverses a drive-by shooting conviction because the trial court failed to instruct the jury on grossly negligent discharge of a firearm as a lesser included offense.
First District holds that an arbitrator’s merits-based finding that an employee did not suffer Labor Code violations preclusively destroys the same employee’s PAGA standing in the companion court action.
First District holds the First Amendment ministerial exception does not categorically bar a Zen Center worker’s wage-and-hour claims, but Labor Code section 98.2’s appeal bond is required only of the employing entity, not individuals also liable under section 558.1.
First District reverses an attempted-lewd-act conviction, holding the trial court violated Code of Civil Procedure section 231.7(d)(1) by failing to explain its reasons for overruling defense counsel’s objection to the prosecutor’s peremptory strike of a prospective juror.
First District affirms a probation condition allowing warrantless electronics searches as imposed on a defendant who used VOIP and text-message accounts to coordinate the sale of 1,000 fentanyl pills.
First District holds that brandishing an imitation firearm under Penal Code section 417.4 is not among the offenses that trigger the juvenile-firearm ban under Penal Code section 29820, and vacates that probation condition.
First District holds a parking-garage operator’s collection of customers’ license-plate information without the publicly available ALPR policy California law requires is itself the kind of harm that supports a private suit under the ALPR Law.
First District affirms LPS conservatorship renewal and involuntary medication order for a 42-year-old man with undifferentiated schizophrenia, finding substantial evidence supports continued grave disability and incompetence to refuse antipsychotic medication.