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DiFusco v. Hands On Spa (2025) ADJ7445107, 90 Cal.Comp.Cases 1007

Appeals Board en banc · binding precedent · 17 pages · retrieved 2026-08-23 · machine-verified 2026-08-24

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Holdings & conclusions

HOLDING No. 1 · DIFUSCO (2025) · EN BANC printed at § 1.2 slip op. p. 2

HOLDING No. 2 · DIFUSCO (2025) · EN BANC printed at § 1.3 slip op. p. 2

HOLDING No. 3 · DIFUSCO (2025) · EN BANC printed at § 16.2 slip op. p. 2

The tribunal

Chair: Katherine A. Zalewski
Commissioner: José H. Razo
Commissioner: Katherine Williams Dodd
Commissioner: Craig L. Snellings
Commissioner: Joseph V. Capurro
Commissioner: Paul F. Kelly
District office: Van Nuys District Office
Former commissioner (noted): Commissioner Sweeney (noted in fn. 1 as no longer a member of the Appeals Board; on the panel that granted reconsideration)
served: Asvar Law, PC
served: Michael Sullivan & Associates LLP

Where the book shelves it

§ 1.1 The Weight of En Banc Decisions
§ 1.2 En Banc Precedent: Stare Decisis; No Supersession by Regulation
§ 1.3 The Appeals Board as Court; Rulemaking Authority and Its Limits
§ 1.5 Regulations: Whose Rules, and the Test of Validity
§ 16.2 Identification of Parties and Liable Entities; the Coldiron Disclosures
§ 17.1 Discovery: Liberal Policy; No Good-Cause Showing for Routine Requests
§ 22.1 Disclosure of Insurance Policies and Provisions Affecting Liability

Census accounting

Every sentence of this decision is accounted for: 239 sentences — 49 quoted in the book, the remainder excluded with stated reasons. Ledger: /api/census · quote hashes: /api/verification.