Oct. 28, 2026
Daum brings a historian's eye and a litigator's range to the 2nd District
Justice Nicholas F. Daum, a former entertainment litigator and trial judge, seeks retention on the 2nd District after writing rulings addressing the constitutional rights, employment disputes, arbitration and housing law.
A few months after joining the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Nicholas F. Daum faced a bare-bones motion from a misdemeanor defendant arguing that California's ban on brass knuckles violated the Second Amendment.
Daum dug in anyway, writing a nine-page ruling that traced the history of the right to bear arms. "Nothing in the available record indicates a common tradition of the use of metal knuckles for legitimate self-defense, inside or outside of California," he ...
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