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Jeff and Tim round up some recent California appellate cases of note:

• Singman v. IMDB.com, bookmark this published opinion holding that legal propositions in a brief without a citation will be ignored.
• Center Street v. Superior Court involving a rare summary affirmance.
• Alexi & Ani LLC v. Warren, allowing an attorney sanctions appeal to proceed though the attorney was not listed on the notice of appeal.
• Weischadle v. Vo, involving a dissent over whether a court reporter is really needed at oral argument.
• In re Purdue Pharma, an OxyContin case in which a bankruptcy settlement was overturned on appeal.
• State of California v. So. Cal. Edison, taking the majority view in the split over what kind of collateral orders are appealable.

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