ONCALL
...Family Law
......General
6 Cards On This Topic:
  • Error not to vacate arbitration award where plaintiff showed that arbitrator failed to disclose he was the neutral in four cases involving defendant's counsel.
  • The federal Communications Decency Act of 1996 bars a trial ct. from enforcing upon an internet service provider an injunction to remove defamatory reviews of a legal practice.
  • State Personnel Board did not abuse its discretion in dismissing an ALJ who simultaneously worked for a law firm litigating cases before the Board.
  • Even though defendant's case was tried before Sanchez was decided, failure of defendant's counsel to make a hearsay objection constituted forfeiture where pre-Sanchez cases indicated that an expert's testimony to hearsay was objectionable.
  • Expert witness, a coroner, violated Sanchez when she testified to the case-specific statements of another coroner; error harmless.
  • Sanchez did not bar the admission of a social services report in the absence of its primary author.