This is a small case, as cases go, but it raises a significant principle: judges, including appellate judges, are required to follow the law. In this case, the Appellate Department of the Los Angeles Superior Court decided a case on a point not raised by the parties, and without notice to the parties that it might do so. When this oversight was pointed out by a petition for rehearing, the court denied the petition...
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