This is why your teenagers are anxious: TikTok’s fate hangs in the balance at the Supreme Court. We discuss the recent oral arguments, and Donald Trump’s amicus brief asking the Court to sit tight and he’ll make a fantastic deal that will be fantastic and make the Court very happy and everyone will be very happy. (That is the best Trump impression I can do in written form 🤷).

And what does it mean when the Court of Appeal decided an appeal based on what one attorney does—and the other attorney doesn’t do—at oral argument? We discuss *Pollock v. Kelso* where the court decides that the plaintiff is the previaling party according to a settlement….a settlement the court has never seen.

We also cover Blauser v. Dubin discussing what to do when the trial court does not issue a final appealable order.

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Other items discussed in the episode:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynzTXuORJwM
• **Appellate court criticizes trial court practice of failing to enter final appealable orders Blauser v. Dubin** (4D3d Nov. 19, 2024 No. G063715).
• **No reporter’s transcript of attorneys’ fees hearing doomed this appeal Saydman v. Aegis Sec. Ins. Co.** (Cal. Ct. App. Dec. 20, 2024 No. G063209) (nonpub. opn.)