Hohenshelt v. Superior Court

Contracts Code of Civil Procedure §1281.98 is not preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act; the statute does not abrogate the longstanding principle that one party’s nonperformance of an obligation automatically extinguishes the other party’s contractual duties only when nonperformance is willful, grossly negligent, or fraudulent. Hohenshelt v. Superior Court (Golden State Foods) - filed Aug. 11, 2025 Cite as 2025 S.O.S. 2269 Full text click here >http://sos.metnews.com/sos.cgi?0825//S284498

Satanic Temple v. Labrador - filed Aug. 11, 2025

Civil Procedure A religious organization did not have associational standing to challenge Idaho’s laws criminalizing abortion where it could not show that one of its members has suffered or will imminently suffer an injury given that it has no patients in Idaho, no doctors who are licensed to treat Idaho patients, and identified no Idaho citizen who sought an abortion from the organization; the organization’s claim that it diverted resources to open its New Mexico clinic to provide abortions in response to Idaho’s and other states’ abortion bans was insufficient to establish standing. Satanic Temple v. Labrador - filed Aug. 11, 2025 Cite as 24-1243 Full text click here >http://sos.metnews.com/sos.cgi?0825//24-1243

Lister v. City of Las Vegas - filed August 4, 2025

Employment Law Where a jury instruction’s opening paragraph refers to the protected characteristics of race and sex, clearly instructing the jury to assess the elements of a hostile work environment on these grounds, the exclusion of race and sex from the first element does not amount to an error. Resubmission of a verdict for clarification is not mandatory when the jury remains available. Lister v. City of Las Vegas - filed August 4, 2025 Cite as 2025 S.O.S. 24-3933 Full text click here >http://sos.metnews.com/sos.cgi?0825//24-3933