In Schermer v. Tatum, 245 Cal. App. 4th 912 (2016), the California Court of Appeal affirmed two important principles for class actions in California: (1) to have a community of interest, there must be ...

Plaintiffs do not have to allege prejudice caused by a violation of the Brown Act’s statutory vote reporting requirement to survive a demurrer, and it is improper to render a case moot by taking ...

“This Court should abstain from entering this fray.” At a hearing Tuesday on the demurrer motion, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Christopher Lui said in a tentative decision that he would retain ...