We entrust to police officers the enormous responsibility
of ensuring public safety with integrity and appropriate
restraint, a mission they sometimes pursue by requesting help
from the very public they’re sworn to protect. When members
of the public engage in “active law enforcement service” at a
peace officer’s request, California law treats those members of
the public as

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA or the
Act; Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq.) regulates activities
carried out, funded, or approved by the government. Any
government action that may directly or indirectly cause a
physical change to the environment is a “project.” (§ 21065; see
§ 21060.5 [“ ‘[e]nvironment’ ” defined].) Generally, the issuance
of a permit i

An employee signed an acknowledgment of receipt of the
employee handbook. In it, he agreed he was bound by the
provisions of the handbook, and it was his responsibility to read
and familiarize himself with all its provisions. The handbook
contained an agreement to arbitrate disputes. The employer did
not highlight or otherwise call the employee’s attention to the
arbitratio

Petitioner Asmik Akopyan, M.D., seeks a writ of mandate
compelling the trial court to vacate its order granting real party
in interest Zulma Unzueta’s peremptory challenge to Judge
Anthony J. Mohr under Code of Civil Procedure section 170.61
filed after this court conditionally reversed the judgment entered
after a jury trial in favor of Dr. Akopyan on Unzueta’s claim for
m