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The case is Roe v. Smith, just decided today by the Second District; it's only the third binding California precedent, as I see it, expressly dealing with pseudonymity (the others are DFEH v. Superior Court, from the Sixth District in 2022, and the considerably less detailed Santa Ana Police Officers Ass'n v. City of Santa Ana, from the Fourth District this Spring). For more on the facts and the substantive analysis in the case, see this post, but here are some holdings that might be especially important for California lawyers litigating about pseudonymity:
