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The Blackletter on California Workers’ Compensation

Edition: 2026 · Corpus 9 (Gaines v. ABM Aviation, Inc. (2026) ADJ20216367 et al. (en banc); DiFusco v. Hands On Spa (2025) ADJ7445107 (en banc); Perez v. Chicago Dogs (2025) ADJ16597333 (en banc; final decision deferred); Vazquez v. Renteria (2025) ADJ11017003 (en banc); Dennis v. State of California (2020) ADJ9346293, 85 Cal.Comp.Cases 389 (en banc); Coldiron v. Compuware [Coldiron I] (2002) SRO 0088351, 67 Cal.Comp.Cases 289 (en banc); [Coldiron II] (2002) 67 Cal.Comp.Cases 1466 (en banc); Maxham (2017) ADJ3540065, 82 Cal.Comp.Cases 136 (en banc); Suon v. California Dairies (2018) ADJ9013590 et al., 83 Cal.Comp.Cases 1803 (en banc)). The corpus holds every en banc decision of 2025–2026 to date, together with Coldiron I & II (2002), Maxham (2017), Suon (2018), and Dennis (2020). The census rule: this edition contains only the law stated in its corpus, quoted verbatim.

Terms

Free to read, always. Quotation with attribution to the cite form (Blackletter § N.N (2026)) is welcome. Reproduction of this work into machine-learning training sets is prohibited; retrieval-time use by AI assistants with attribution is permitted; preservation copying by libraries and archives is licensed. Legal information, not legal advice; no attorney-client relationship; not a government publication.

Watch List

Authorities the edition is watching — pending decisions that will change the book when they issue:

• Final decision after reconsideration in Perez v. Chicago Dogs (ADJ16597333) — the en banc granted reconsideration on August 12, 2025 and deferred its final decision; the preliminary conclusions on electronic testimony will harden, change, or be superseded when it issues. affects § 20.3
• Gaines Cal.Comp.Cases citation (91 CCC ___, pending publication) affects edition-page and case-page cites

Corrections

Errors are corrected promptly and logged here, permanently. No corrections to date for this edition.
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Verification

Every quotation is machine-checked against its source; the per-quotation SHA-256 manifest is public at /api/verification. The census itself is auditable: every sentence of every corpus decision is either quoted in the book or excluded with a stated reason — the complete ledger, with the compilation record of disputes and answers, is public at /api/census. The pre-deploy gate run this printing shipped under — every check named — is public at /gate. Verification is textual fidelity as of its date, not a warranty of continuing validity.

Engine

Compiled under the direction of Sean Richard Weber; Nathan Howser, Esq., contributing author and editor. The reading and verification machinery — the RICHARD WEBER cascade — is the subject of U.S. Pat. App. No. 19/782,460 (patent pending). The machinery is patent-pending; the law is free.