Day: May 14, 2021
Procedural Posture
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California, granted summary adjudication to defendant landlord on plaintiff tenant’s malicious prosecution claim. A jury found the landlord liable for violating two rent control ordinances, but found against the tenant on his breach of contract claim. The trial court denied the tenant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict […]
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Procedural Posture
Plaintiff law school graduate appealed from the Superior Court of Los Angeles County (California) which dismissed plaintiff’s complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief and that sought to compel plaintiff’s admission to the Order of the Coif, a national honorary legal society. Plaintiff argued that his compliant set forth a justiciable issue and that it sufficiently […]
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