Question: Are incarcerated persons in California entitled to in-person court hearings? Short Answer: No, Proposition 57 does not require or imply a right to an in-person hearing. In a 2022 decision, the California Court of Appeal ruled that nonviolent prisoners...
By The Wagstaffe Group California Arbitration Fees California litigators pursuing arbitration take heed: the failure to timely pay arbitration fees could have disastrous consequences for your client. A California appellate court has yet again held that a...
This article appears in the Spring 2023 Inmate Litigation Reporter , an exclusive quarterly digest analyzing new legal developments affecting the rights of people in prison -- developed specifically for people in prison. To learn more about this content and other...
California Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated California corporations now have a mechanism to retroactively remedy defective corporate actions, after lawmakers approved new procedures to allow corporations to petition the superior court to ratify corporate...
By Jim Wagstaffe | Partner at Wagstaffe, von Loewenfeldt, Busch, & Radwick LLC Motions that can win your client’s case As a former judicial law clerk, teacher of judges and practice guide author, I am often asked: “How do you win motions that...
By Jim Wagstaffe | Partner at Wagstaffe, von Loewenfeldt, Busch, & Radwick LLC What Law School Doesn’t Teach New Lawyers Just over a century ago, the study of law migrated from young lawyers apprenticing at the feet of their wise elders to academic...
California Corporations Code California’s state legislature enacted or amended more than 40 sections in the Corporations Code and related codes, including new powers for corporate entities in an emergency, amended laws permitting remote shareholder and...